Only Scripture is God's Word (Readily Available to Men on Earth in General)
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It is not my purpose to defend the expression "sola scriptura." The reason for not so doing is that this could end up in being a debate about what "sola scriptura" means with quotations from the Reformers, etc. This is not intended to be a debate about words, but an examination of what is God's available word.
The Bible is not the only thing that is God's Word. We may assume that there have been many oral prophecies which were never written down. And in Heaven we may assume that God speaks to angels and within the Trinity. But none of those examples of God's Word are readily available to men in general on earth.
It may be noted that nothing written after the last book of the NT has ever been successfully added to the Bible.
Good morning Crossnote.
The challenge includes anything and/or everything anyone claims is God's Word (aside from the Bible), with the qualification that the thing one claims is God's Word must be generally and readily available to men on earth now.
Now what will be interesting is if someone wants to claim that RCC decrees and non-Bible tradition are the Word of God; but the proof given for this is because the Bible says so -- while at the same time it is claimed that the only reason why one accepts that the Bible is the word of God is because RCC decrees and non-Bible tradition say so. (Circular Reasoning.)
''The Bible is the only thing I know of that is God's Word '' (first line of first post).
''The Bible is not the only thing that is God's Word.'' (first line of 2nd paragraph of your 2nd post).
Now I'm a little confused
You cut the quote short on the first:
The Bible is the only thing I know of that is God's Word (readily available to men on earth in general).
We may safely assume that God talks with angels in heaven, and what He says there is God's Word. But on earth we do not have access to those sayings. We may safely assume that God spoke through prophets to Israel in OT times orally (nothing written). Those sayings are God's Word. But there were no tape recorders going, and we don't have access to this, though it is God's Word.
The Bible is the only thing I know of that is God's word and readily available to men-in-general now on earth.
If anyone thinks something else is thus available, I challenge them to bring it forth and prove that it is God's Word.