shadmans Musings  

After looking at argument #9, which was, ‘Sola Scriptura was not in the early Church,’ and seeing how Church history actually does support Sola Scriptura , we move onto argument #8 and the idea that Sola Scriptura caused the fragmentation of the church. At first glance, this might sound plausible. There are a lot of Protestant denominations, and some of them are turning downright heretical. But the general reason for this argument seems to be all of the perceived doctrinal disagreements that created the perceived disunity, although I think far too many of these splits are caused by personalities and petty selfishness. But fragmentation can sometimes be more difficult to pin down than one might think. Far too many Protestants, and Catholics for that matter, know nothing about their history or how their doctrines came about. When someone says something, you just believe it because checking them out is not always an easy task and we live in a day and age when we just can’t be bothered wi...

[18] Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind, [19] and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God. (Col 2:18-19) As we continue in Colossians we see how Gnostic mysticism was influencing the Colossians as it attempted to trick and manipulate them into believing things that were never part of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. There was no need for humiliating oneself, or inflating the importance of prophetic visions, or spiritual experiences that were drawing the Colossian believers away from Christ. As Max Anders put it, Fullness and freedom mean that believers need not be drawn into the quest for exciting experiences. Apparently, the false teachers were telling the believers at Colosse that mystical visions and deeper experie...

As I begin part 30 of my Sola Scriptura series, I transition into another defense of this view but this time directly refuting reasons given for why Sola Scriptura is rejected. This entire series has been defensive in nature, in that I am attempting to answer objections, both past and current, to Sola Scriptura , as if Catholicism doesn’t need to defend their own position. But this is not just for Catholics since there are major Protestant denominations that reject Sola Scriptura as well by what and how they teach. There was a recent video posted on YouTube from Cameron Bertuzzi, better known as 'Capturing Christianity' on several social media platforms ( YouTube , X , etc.), where he states nine ‘powerful’ arguments for why S ola Scriptura is false. His video can be found here: I Spent a Year Researching Sola Scriptura—Here's 9 Reasons Why It's False . I would encourage you to listen to it so that you will have a clear frame of reference for my responses to his ni...