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JonShaff

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Indeed. The Church is one flesh with Jesus Christ, Ephesians 5. If you want to say God is the bible, lets hear your bible worship.

Otherwise provide bible verse that states WRITTEN SCRIPTURE is superior to the word of God and the authority of the church which is Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church. Anytime Jesus speaks the church has spoken.

Show a verse that states WRITINGS are superior to all other forms of communication.

2 Corinthians 3

2You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; 3being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

4Such confidence we have through Christ toward God. 5Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, 6who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Here is a report of a letter of Christ not written with ink with the adequacy from God.

Tell me that the servants of the new covenant are not adequate at all and only ink and writing is.
Absolutely correct. They maintain a substitutionary priesthood--relegating authority to themselves and creating a separation of clergy and laity--which is all false. They believe they are mediating the new covenant. Christ is the mediator. Christ said we are Kings and Priests in His Kingdom--all born-again believers.

Here is my reply--you are under an ungodly, anti-scriptural government. You can say all you want, but actions speak. You and the Roman Cult disregard the authority of God's Word and have put together an unbiblical ecclesiastical system.
 

steaver

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No we wouldn't. They didn't stop Jesus and say well hold on lets see what scripture says. We take authority straight from Jesus, you are looking at the written report.

We ordered the meal straight from the Chef because we know him. You still think he cooks for the sake of the menu.

Well that sure is from left field. Nothing like avoiding my point.
 

steaver

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We take authority straight from Jesus, you are looking at the written report.

Yes, I am looking at the written word which YOU gave as support for your belief. Are you saying Jesus personally spoke this belief to you?
 

utilyan

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Here is my reply--you are under an ungodly, anti-scriptural government. You can say all you want, but actions speak. You and the Roman Cult disregard the authority of God's Word and have put together an unbiblical ecclesiastical system.

You folks claim Scripture teaches that it is the Final and Only Authority.

You have the easy job of putting up the verse. That is all there is to it.

Whining about what I believe makes no difference.
 

JonShaff

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You folks claim Scripture teaches that it is the Final and Only Authority.

You have the easy job of putting up the verse. That is all there is to it.

Whining about what I believe makes no difference.
Question: Did Christ Expect His contemporaries to be following the Scriptures? To what Degree? 10%, 50%, 100% of them, 10% 50% 100% of the time?
 

Yeshua1

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You folks claim Scripture teaches that it is the Final and Only Authority.

You have the easy job of putting up the verse. That is all there is to it.

Whining about what I believe makes no difference.
Jesus NEVER used any authority when confronting Satan and Pharisees apart from the word of God! 2 Timothy 3:16-17
 

steaver

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You folks claim Scripture teaches that it is the Final and Only Authority.

You have the easy job of putting up the verse. That is all there is to it.

If Scripture is not the Final Authority then how would any verse convince you? It wouldn't, would it? Just like when I tried to convince you from Scripture how a person who rejected Jesus Christ as the Son of God would be condemned to hell and you simply rejected the scripture. You have bought into the false doctrine that the RCC is the word of God, no matter what has been written in the bible by any Apostles of Christ. So you are asking for something that you would never accept even if it said it exactly the way you want it to be said. It does not exist in your mind because the RCC has told you what you are to believe.
 

Davyboy

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1Th 5:27
"I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren."


Col 4:16
"And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea."

Nothing from those verses say anything about using the Bible Alone as the “Ultimate Authority or proving from the Bible alone any doctrines. Plus those verses say Epistle meaning only that book. Not the Bible alone because when this book was written where was no Canon of the Bible until 400 AD. So you are saying “Sola Thessalonins” or “Sola Colossians”.
 
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utilyan

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Question: Did Christ Expect His contemporaries to be following the Scriptures? To what Degree? 10%, 50%, 100% of them, 10% 50% 100% of the time?

Lets start with the basics. Does the bible teach that scripture is the final and only authority?

Or was this claim that there is a verse, a LIE?

Because it is toted as the #1 Rule, This is not a unreasonable question, YES OR NO.

Why do you fear to slap the truth down on table?

Is there a bible verse that spells out PLAINLY and CLEARLY that Scripture is the Final and Only authority?

Show me this verse RIGHT NOW.


We get instructions FROM scripture, we don't shove our FAKE IDEAS into it.
 

steaver

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Not the Bible alone because when this book was written where was no Canon of the Bible until 400 AD.

Has nothing to do with this debate. The Apostle's letters existed prior to any bible being composed of them. Anytime the Apostles taught doctrine it was accepted that what they taught was the word of God.
 

steaver

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We get instructions FROM scripture, we don't shove our FAKE IDEAS into it.

1Th 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
 

utilyan

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1Th 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

They HEARD it from the Church. I don't see the requirement of reading a book.

But let me RE-WRITE this one for you.

For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the WRITINGS of God which WHICH WE WROTE DOWN, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the WRITTINGS of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe


Even butchering the scripture, it still does not say SCRIPTURE is the FINAL and ONLY AUTHORITY.


God could write a note that says:

"Your Mother is the indisputable authority in permitting and omitting what is done. You must take out the trash"


According to your logic, The only thing you can do is take out the trash because that note is the ONLY and Final Authority.

Now look, I want people notice how we still are going in circles with a REFUSAL to give straight answer.

Is there a bible verse that spells out PLAINLY and CLEARLY that Scripture is the Final and Only authority?

Show me this verse RIGHT NOW.

There is a word called YES. Its three letters long and gives a affirmative.

Is there a bible verse that spells out PLAINLY and CLEARLY that Scripture is the Final and Only authority?

Stop running around the question.
 

Adonia

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If Scripture is not the Final Authority then how would any verse convince you? It wouldn't, would it? Just like when I tried to convince you from Scripture how a person who rejected Jesus Christ as the Son of God would be condemned to hell and you simply rejected the scripture. You have bought into the false doctrine that the RCC is the word of God, no matter what has been written in the bible by any Apostles of Christ. So you are asking for something that you would never accept even if it said it exactly the way you want it to be said. It does not exist in your mind because the RCC has told you what you are to believe.

We believe the Latin Rite Christian Church because it has the correct interpretation and the correct doctrines precisely because of what the Scriptures say. For example, there are seven sacraments of the Christian way and they are all laid out clearly in the Scriptures, even though they are not referred to as such in the Holy Writ. You are the one who has deviated from the long time accepted true Word of God, not us.
 

Adonia

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Jesus NEVER used any authority when confronting Satan and Pharisees apart from the word of God! 2 Timothy 3:16-17

Memo to Yeshua 1: Jesus was/is God. He was using His own words and His own authority when confronting others. Good grief!
 

Adonia

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The Bible Alone Does have final authority--One day you will stand in judgment for your heresy. Man does not have authority outside of the rightly expounded teaching of the Word of God. IT carries the authority. Not man.

Then how come we differ when interpreting what it says? You read into the Scriptures what you want, something which started with Luther. Until then, it was the Universal Church to which everyone looked to for the correct biblical interpretation. Even our Eastern orthodox brothers continued to believe in the orthodox interpretation of the Scriptures after the big split in the 11th century, just like the Latin Rite. It's you folks who went off the deep end with your new interpretation of things.
 

Aaron

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Indeed. The Church is one flesh with Jesus Christ, Ephesians 5. If you want to say God is the bible, lets hear your bible worship.

Otherwise provide bible verse that states WRITTEN SCRIPTURE is superior to the word of God and the authority of the church which is Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church. Anytime Jesus speaks the church has spoken.

Show a verse that states WRITINGS are superior to all other forms of communication.

2 Corinthians 3

2You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; 3being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

4Such confidence we have through Christ toward God. 5Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, 6who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Here is a report of a letter of Christ not written with ink with the adequacy from God.

Tell me that the servants of the new covenant are not adequate at all and only ink and writing is.
Argues that Scripture isn't the authority. Appeals to Scripture to support his argument.

In one account, Jesus tells the story of The Rich Man and Lazarus. The rich man dies and goes to hell, but asks that Lazarus be sent back to warn his brothers.

Abraham responded, "They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them."

Question: What does it mean, They have Moses and the prophets?
 
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steaver

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They HEARD it from the Church. I don't see the requirement of reading a book.

But let me RE-WRITE this one for you.

For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the WRITINGS of God which WHICH WE WROTE DOWN, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the WRITTINGS of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe

Let me RE-WRITE this one for you.

For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of THE CHURCH, ye received it not as the word of THE CHURCH, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

No, let's just let the word of God say what it says...which ye heard of US...the APOSTLES.
 

steaver

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Is there a bible verse that spells out PLAINLY and CLEARLY that Scripture is the Final and Only authority?

Is there a bible verse that spells out PLAINLY and CLEARLY that The Church is the Final and Only authority?I
 

steaver

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We believe the Latin Rite Christian Church because it has the correct interpretation and the correct doctrines precisely because of what the Scriptures say. For example, there are seven sacraments of the Christian way and they are all laid out clearly in the Scriptures, even though they are not referred to as such in the Holy Writ. You are the one who has deviated from the long time accepted true Word of God, not us.

So when folks like Utilyan demand "Is there a bible verse that spells out PLAINLY and CLEARLY..." we could say the word of God being the Final Authority is laid out clearly in the Scriptures, even though it is not referred to as such in the Holy Writ.

You are the one who has deviated from the long time accepted true Word of God, not us.

You sure about that? What is the true Word of God according to you? Jesus Christ? The Apostles' writings? The Church?
 
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