Sola Scriptura is the doctrine and practice of scripture alone, or that the Bible alone is the final authority on all matters of Christian faith. This doctrine is a complete and total fiction.
Being Catholic Christian, I, of course, reject this doctrine. I could list all the usual reasons that Catholic Christians and Rabbinical Jews give for rejecting this doctrine but the point is entirely moot as it's never practiced anyway.
In fact, Sola Scriptura (SS) is wholly impossible to practice due to the imprecise nature of language and because each and every person person has their own experiences, biases and prejudices, all of which influence and color the way that they understand language in general and the Bible specifically.
The Catholic Christian Church interprets the Bible by the guidance of the Oral Tradition that was first given to Moses from God at Mt. Sinai. Starting with Martin Luther, protestants increasingly abandoned the Oral Tradition. But instead of actually practicing SS, protestants just made up their own traditions or returned to pre-Christian pagan traditions and their man-made traditions became their authority instead. The result is that protestantism is divided into a million and one different denominations, all of which preach a different gospel with a different Jesus and a different doctrine and a different plan of salvation.
In some parts of the USA, namely the so-called "Bible Belt," one can find a different protestant establishment on literally every other street corner and each one is quite literally teaching and practicing a different religion and worshiping a different deity. Many of these religions have no similarity at all with each other beyond that they all claim the Bible as their sole authority and that they call their disparate deities by the same name, Jesus.
Being Catholic Christian, I, of course, reject this doctrine. I could list all the usual reasons that Catholic Christians and Rabbinical Jews give for rejecting this doctrine but the point is entirely moot as it's never practiced anyway.
In fact, Sola Scriptura (SS) is wholly impossible to practice due to the imprecise nature of language and because each and every person person has their own experiences, biases and prejudices, all of which influence and color the way that they understand language in general and the Bible specifically.
The Catholic Christian Church interprets the Bible by the guidance of the Oral Tradition that was first given to Moses from God at Mt. Sinai. Starting with Martin Luther, protestants increasingly abandoned the Oral Tradition. But instead of actually practicing SS, protestants just made up their own traditions or returned to pre-Christian pagan traditions and their man-made traditions became their authority instead. The result is that protestantism is divided into a million and one different denominations, all of which preach a different gospel with a different Jesus and a different doctrine and a different plan of salvation.
In some parts of the USA, namely the so-called "Bible Belt," one can find a different protestant establishment on literally every other street corner and each one is quite literally teaching and practicing a different religion and worshiping a different deity. Many of these religions have no similarity at all with each other beyond that they all claim the Bible as their sole authority and that they call their disparate deities by the same name, Jesus.
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