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| I have been playing the "No Verse in Scripture" game with one of my former students. He said that there was no verse in Scripture that authorized the Catholic teaching that society is constructed out of families rather than out of isolated individuals. That is, of course, true.
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| There is also no verse in Scripture that says every truth taught by the Church must be found in a verse in Scripture. [[Sola scriptura|"Sola scriptura"]] is not a scriptural teaching.
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| There is no verse in Scripture that says we may call the writings of the Israelites [[OT|"the Old Testament"]] nor the writings produced by the Body of Christ [[NT|"the New Testament."]]
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| There is no verse in Scripture that authorizes the reading of the Scriptures in translation. The Israelite Scriptures were written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and (according to the Catholic Church) Greek; the Christians Scriptures have only been found in Greek manuscripts to date.
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| There is no verse in Scripture that tells us whether we are free to do anything not forbidden in the Scriptures (Luther's view; e.g., build church buildings, ornament them with icons, consecrate altars, light them with electricity, etc.) or whether we may only do what is positively commanded in the Scriptures (Calvin's view).
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| There is no verse in Scripture that lists the [[canon|writings that have been inspired by God]] and that must now be venerated as the Word of God.
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| There is no verse in Scripture that authorizes calling the entire collection of the Scriptures [[Bible|"the Bible."]] No verse in the Bible authorizes people to ask, "Where is that in the Bible?"
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| Either the Body has the power to make these kinds of decisions or else there is no Bible; if the Body has the power to make these decisions, it is free from the obligation to back them up by a specific verse in Scripture.
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| == References ==
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| <references />
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| == Links ==
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| [[Category:Ecclesiology]]
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| [[Category:Scripture Studies]]
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