Elin,
We are not examining teaching originating after the gospel writings.
We are examining the gospel writings themselves.
How did you miss that?
Yes, I did not miss that. But the Apostles did not write down everything that they taught to the early Church. Do you have all the exact copy of all the teachings, sermons Paul preached, taugth in Corinth for three years before he wrote the first letter? Same for Ephesus. To actually know what these letters meant in the context of the whole Gospel given, the Oral teachings, we need the reports of the early Church. We need their explanations of what they were taught. After all, it was meant to be a Tradtion, something passed down from one generation to the next by teaching and preaching, not be written text. Christ never instructed the Apostles to say in Jerusalem and write out the Gospel and then by donkey/camel send it to Corinth or Ephesus.
What does that mean?
Is the "original meaning" different from what it actually states?
different than over several thousands of people trying to interpret it as to what it means apart from the source, the full content and context.
Maybe you can tell me what might be the meaning, is it Lutheranism, Calvinism, Davidson, Eddy, Smith, Russell, White, New Age, how many more and they are all different. Just amazing how many meanings scripture has.
What theory?
The NT either shows what I say, or it does not.
What does "another man's theory" have to do with it?
the theory under discussion is "faith only" in case you did not follow the thread.
Many men think as you do. they think that the scripture says what they say it means. It cannot be scripture because Scripture has ONLY one meaning, not thousands.
Another man's theory can easily be determined by the fact that scripture in the beginning did not hold to such a teaching. Many men tried but each time they were declared heretical or their teachings were declared heretical. Not a single man was ever able to impose his own teaching upon Christ's Gospel.
And how do you know anything of what Christ was, said or did apart from the very Scriptures we are examining?
because it was taught in the beginning to the early Church. That same teaching is still held today unchanged just as the Holy Spirit promised. The fact that it has not changed, and man has not imposed his own authority over it, is the historical witness to the power and validity of the work of the Holy Spirit.
Hardly like sola scriptura where man assumes authority over scripture, then proceeds to interpret it according to his best intellectual deductive skills. The result thousands of personal gospels, including Luthers, who adopted this notion of "faith only.
Apart from the Scriptures, there is no other source of knowledge regarding Christ.
You are talking in circles.
So what is this authority which can authorize what Scripture does not state?
No, scripture is part of a larger body of knowledge, the origianl Gospel, Holy Tradition, from which scripture originates. The authority is Christ and the Holy Spirit. They hold in unity the Gospel that was originally given to the saints.
The Church in 1Tim 3:15 is God's household, and that's all believers, all those in Christ; i.e., all God's people.
God's people are the ground and pillar of God's truth because as a body they hold forth the Scripture and doctrine of Christ, just as a pillar in those days held forth the proclamation which was attached to it (see Eph 3:10).
that is absolutely correct? Are you in His Church?
Yes, he guards the Church against false teachings with his Word written in the Scriptures,
which are the plumbline against which all truth must be measured.
And your notions are not plumb, do not measure up.
and how does your church guard against false doctrines, Your idea of sola scriptura has spawned doctrines, denonimations like amebas. It seems your version is not very good at it.
The one Christ established at Pentecost can show through history that Chist's Gospel has not changed. No man has asserted his authority over either the Church or the Gospel entrusted to it.
The only way Christ's "perspective" can be known is from the Scriptures.
Everything else is just extra-Biblical teaching from the mind of man.
You've got some seriously contra-Biblical notions.
You are the picture of spiritual blindness, because you overlay God's truth with your own notions.
when the Truth cannot be refuted, resort to non substantive assertions. Seems the typical scenerio of false teachers.