The catholics do not hold the sola scriptura doctrine and at some level I agree. However any study of Scripture shows us how limited it is in its breadth as it only provides the absolutely bare minimum of what is NECESSARY
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Yes I agree, Christ and his apostles taught a minimalist faith Anyone inspired by love of God must be curious to inquire about the mysteries of his natue but it is dangerous to say the resolution of these mysteries is necessary to follow Christ
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @GolfNorman and
And sola scriptura means sola scriptura. Don't Babylon out on us here!
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If sola scriptura was truly what you believed you would not even bother to discuss scripture or participate in these discussions and you would only stick to the text.
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I still think there is a fact of the matter about questions ignored or discussed obscurely in Scripture
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @GolfNorman and
For example, what is the connection between the clan of Terah and the Mitanni? Irrelevant to salvation, inadmissible in Christian dogma, but still a very interesting question
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @GolfNorman and
Likewise there are ethical questions which are touched on in the NT, but Jesus is the Christ, not a philosophy professor; trying to work out implications is part of ethics but not necessary to faith
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No, but the quest for this knowledge should be a product of your Faith. Both a thirst for scripture and what lies beyond scripture should exist in the Heart of a Christian who has the gift of Understanding.
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definitely. But gifts are as the talents; they impose responsibilities on the faithful but they are not themselves elements of faith
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faculties of theology have many subtle men, but many fewer saints than the peasantry
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the noblest reason to care about the metaphysics of christology is to risk damnation to prevent others theologians from leading commoners into damnation and schism
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