James White on SOLA SCRIPTURA

[@gregorylgreenwoodii]

Tremendously edifying. Praise Yah. Yah bless you.

[@teth-adam]

No one knows how to argue against a point that no one brought up quite like James White.

[@dave_ecclectic]

Where is the -Table of Contents_ in the Bible? Wouldn't Sola Scriptura require a self-contained list of books *in* the book itself? He even brings this up but once again sidesteps it.
2:20 "you need to have an _authority_ to tell you when scripture stops."
Well, you need an authority to define scripture and include it in the book that contains the Inspired Word of God. _Maybe?_
4:25 Well yes, EVERYTHING! It's called the canon of the Bible and without one you have no Bible.

[@craigime]

Can you give a link where James explains how the canon was formed please

[@user-xg7lo6hw8r]

Sola scriptural is impossible. We’d need the originals with the apostle’s signatures and notarized by civil authorities. We’d need a table of contents with all books listed and each page initialed, etc, etc.

[@thomasthellamas9886]

That’s doesn’t follow

[@neodaltiair8624]

Sola Scriptura doesn’t even require that you believe that inspiration must end

[@amaledward2147]

You can’t by our can’t believe in sola Scriptura without showing some hypocrisy. It’s personal opinion

[@Skyscraper21]

Come together, talk about God and how you can do his will. That is enough. Get baptized, read the writings the spirit and tradition of the church fathers tells you is holy and stop building useless rules and laws above it.
What is happening instead is nobody does anything useful, anything for the poor, anything constructive. We only engage in fights against each other within the body of Christ
What did the first christians do? Get together, be there for each other, help the needy, help to spread the good news.
Remind each other what Jesus did for us, follow his example. Accept his sacrifice. Leave sin, money and the world and follow him. Pray and talk to him, meditate on the word of God every day.
This doesn't mean there is no authority outside of the bible. I only think that for me to listen to somebody (a brother, sister, a teacher, a church, an author) he/she should better not contradict the bible as given to us by the very old traditions up to the apostles. I will not accept new rules, conclusions and writings that contradict the old faith. And I don't need nor accept new revelations that contradict the old

[@Nolongeraslave]

Maybe it's good to look for the whole presentation.

[@mosesmanaka8109]

Luther became his own Pope by deciding what should be in the Bible or not.
Protestants must be very careful not to worship the Bible as if it is a god on its own, as if it is like a god who can tell you everything.
Jesus said that the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, will dwell inside of us and will guide us into ALL Truth.
The Bible is a nice to have, it's not GOD.

[@Expository]

You don’t know much about the history don’t you ?

[@christopherlampman5579]

@@Expository you don’t know know much about English, DON’T you.

[@amaledward2147]

@@ExpositoryWe all know, you have ano arguments against someone who has a different cannon. Unless you are God

[@Expository]

@@amaledward2147 nup. You don’t, but you like to think that.

[@kiwi-xl1vl]

Scripture entails both oral and written words of God. It is clearly mentionef in the Bible thay not everything that Jesus Christ said and deeds are not written. Hence inspired word of God both written and oral known as sacred tradition. Just because you font have one, since deprived of being apostolic, yiu are twisting things to suit your position. The crux is the grape is sour

[@fantasia55]

Sola Scriptura could not have existed before the Catholic Church created the Bible in AD 382.

[@christopherlampman5579]

Boom!

[@Expository]

The bible was not created was revealed. The Bible it is a revelation not a man made book.

[@fantasia55]

@Expository the Bible, meaning "books", is a list of texts. That list was created by the Catholic Church at the Council of Rome in AD 382.

[@Expository]

@@fantasia55 that is false. The church didn’t create anything. The manuscripts were already copied and in the circulation.
Also, if the Sola Scriptura is taught in the Bible then, the Sola Scriptura existent long before a formal recognition of the Canon

[@fantasia55]

@Expository There were dozens of gospels and hundreds of epistles in circulation before the Catholic Church settled on MML&J and the rest of the New Testament as well as the original canon Old Testament.