06-21-2021, 12:55 AM
(06-20-2021 11:33 PM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: [ -> ]Rev 22:18-19
"I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book."
So, I ask again, show me in the Bible itself, where are the divinely specified table of contents? There exists none in the Bible itself. So who has the authrotiy to specifiy the Bible's contenets? The inly ones who have that Godly authority are those whom Christ himself gave that authority...the leaders of his own aporstolic church and their designated successors. Why? Because Christ gave them the authority to decide on earth, and said God bakcd up their decisions. So why do you add something not in the Bible to the Bible? Revelation says not to. Re-read the Gospel of John. It is quite clear.
And where in teh bioble does it say that only the Bible (which, remember did not exist in the form we know it today until several centuries after the death of Christ) does the doctirne and words "solo scriptura" specify? It does not. So that is something that someone added latrer. King James did not luve until the middle ages, yet many ascribe his version as the one bible? Where in the heck is the verse that specifies King james of England? It does not...that is aded, and it itslef is a non-biblical idea. Is the King James a good translation? For the most part yes. Is it the sole authority? No, not according to its own words contained in its own language. It is self-refuting, yet people ahve for centuries been bludgeoned into reapeating the mantra, much like the communistst repeat: We are at war with eastasia; we have always been at war with eastasia." It does not make it any more true. yet every King James version contains the qords of Christ, which many of its followers ignore: "This IS my body, This IS my blood." "You are the rock, and upon this rock I build my church. Whosoever's sins you deem to forgive here on earth, they are forgiven in heaven." Et cetera, et cetera.
People are certainly free to use their own will to follow something or someone else; as for me and my family, we follow God, and therefore, His Designated Church on this Earth.