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== The misuse of Scripture == | == The misuse of Scripture == | ||
* The both ages of Scripture, the time of the Old Testament and the time of the New Testament, oral tradition came first and written tradition came afterwards. | |||
* When Jesus ascended | * God did not give Abraham a Bible to read but a relationship to cultivate. | ||
* The word "Bible" as we use it today [["Bible" in the Bible|is not in the Bible!]] | * When Jesus ascended into Heaven, '''He left a Body, not a book.''' | ||
* No verse in the Bible says "Every teaching of the Church must be backed up by a verse in the Bible." ''This is an extra-Biblical decision. It is an act of hypocrisy or ignorance. The people who set this as the standard for deciding what may and may not be taught violate the standard in the very act of stating it.'' | * The word "Bible" as we use it today [["Bible" in the Bible|is not in the Bible!]] | ||
* The doctrine of "[[Sola Scriptura]]" is not found in the Scriptures. "[[Sola scriptura]]" is a slogan invented by Martin Luther in the 16th century. | * The word "canon" is not in the Bible. In this context, canon means "the ''official list'' of books that are inspired by God." | ||
* No verse in the Bible says "Every teaching of the Church must be backed up by a verse in the Bible." ''This is an extra-Biblical decision. It is an act of hypocrisy or ignorance. The people who set this as the standard for deciding what may and may not be taught violate the standard they set in the very act of stating it.'' | |||
* The doctrine of "[[Sola Scriptura]]" is not found in the Scriptures. "[[Sola scriptura]]" is a slogan invented by Martin Luther in the 16th century. It is a human tradition, not a Biblical mandate. | |||
=== Canon-within-a-canon === | === Canon-within-a-canon === | ||
Revision as of 19:20, 13 July 2012
Development of the Canon
- No book of the Bible lists the books of the Bible.
- The determination of which writings to treat as inspired, Sacred Scripture and which writings to treat as not intended by God to become part of the Bible is an extra-Biblical decision. This is one of the ways in which the Protestant dogma that truth is to be sought "sola scriptura" falls apart.
The misuse of Scripture
- The both ages of Scripture, the time of the Old Testament and the time of the New Testament, oral tradition came first and written tradition came afterwards.
- God did not give Abraham a Bible to read but a relationship to cultivate.
- When Jesus ascended into Heaven, He left a Body, not a book.
- The word "Bible" as we use it today is not in the Bible!
- The word "canon" is not in the Bible. In this context, canon means "the official list of books that are inspired by God."
- No verse in the Bible says "Every teaching of the Church must be backed up by a verse in the Bible." This is an extra-Biblical decision. It is an act of hypocrisy or ignorance. The people who set this as the standard for deciding what may and may not be taught violate the standard they set in the very act of stating it.
- The doctrine of "Sola Scriptura" is not found in the Scriptures. "Sola scriptura" is a slogan invented by Martin Luther in the 16th century. It is a human tradition, not a Biblical mandate.
Canon-within-a-canon
This is an error that is common among many Protestants. They select some books from the canon of the OT or the NT and neglect others--especially those in the New Testament that reflect "early Catholicism" (Frühkatholizismus): the development of the offices of bishop (episkopos), priest (presbyteros), and deacon (diakonos), sacramental theology, and the excoriation and excommunication of Christian antichrists.