shadmans Musings  

In part 26 of my Sola Scriptura series, I am going to skip the church fathers that led the Church into the latter part of the Middle Ages and focus on that era as a whole, even though I’m going to mention one specific Church father during this timeframe. Why? Because of all the reasons I’ve already given multiple times. We have a 400-year firewall from the Apostles to Augustine where there is simply no mention of the kind of ‘tradition’ that the Roman Catholic Church says has always existed according to the Council of Trent and thereafter. The Middle Ages can be a nebulous term that sometimes refers to an era that is anywhere from 400 to 800 years in length in the minds of most people. So, I’m going to be using the term in a general sense. After looking into this era more closely than I had in the past, it is now my contention that the reliance on Scripture was really no different in the Middle Ages than it was during the patristic age of the Church we’ve already examined. Now, if you...

[9] For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, [10] and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority; (2:9-10) The Expositor’s Bible Commentary calls verse 8 of Colossians the “poison” for which Paul forewarns the Colossians about [1] and then calls verses 9 and 10 the “antidote” to that poison. [2] And this fits the writing style of Paul perfectly that we see in some of his other epistles. Paul identifies the problem and then presents the solution. It is also a fitting way to describe the role of philosophy in our world today and how the Bible should be viewed concerning this error and all of the other errors that have arisen throughout the history of the Church. Focusing in on verses 9 and 10, we see what Paul viewed as the solution to what was happening to the Colossians church. In the words of John MacArthur, “Verse 9 is one of the most definitive statements of Christ’s deity in the epistles. It is the rock upon which all atte...