shadmans Musings  

 In this installment, part 29, of my Sola Scriptura series I am going to take a more in depth look at the type of tradition that more closely aligns with how the Catholic Church would understand the use of the word, ‘tradition.’ I have traveled through quite a few topics trying to show how the Church fathers understood ‘tradition’ when they used the word. In the last two blogs I looked more critically at what the term, ‘unanimous consent of the fathers,’ actually meant because it was important to prevent the misuse of this phrase from encouraging anyone to believe there was any truth to this Catholic belief. And it would help everyone to better understand the next section I’m about to step into. Each of these topics have built upon the previous in an attempt to create an ironclad case for Sola Scriptura .  We also needed to look at the allegorical interpretive method because it will play a key role in this blog. Remember, as we saw in the previous two blogs, the allegori...

When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him. (2:15) ‘ When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities ’ – Definition: ‘disarmed’ (‘spoil’ - KJV) – The Greek word, apekduomai { ap-ek-doo’-om-ahee } means to wholly put off something from one’s self, denoting a separation from what is put off; to wholly strip for one’s self for one’s own advantage. In the definition above, please notice that it says, “... to wholly strip for one's self ...”, not “...to strip off of one's self ...” It might sound like splitting hairs, but this is not about Christ stripping something off of Himself, as if He had something that had to be removed and that is what spoiled the plans or schemings of the rulers and authorities. Quite the contrary; it is Christ that has done the stripping or disarming. The KJV word, 'spoil' should be viewed as booty; the spoils of war to better understand its true meaning. Several comm...