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| Catholic Church | "Protestants no more than Catholics can justify all of these things on the bare word of the Bible alone, for that word is not there. They must, as Catholics do, appeal to a traditional Christian understanding of the Scriptures, holding that as the earliest Christians found them not unscriptural, neither should anyone today find them unscriptural. While "the Bible alone," therefore, of the first Reformers remains a principle honored theoretically by Protestantism, in practice it is not at all workable." Reference 11 |
| Scriptures | These were more noble than those in
Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched
the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. Therefore many of them believed;
~Acts 17:11-12a And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures. ~Acts 17:2 |
| Comments | The scriptures themselves state that those that are noble will search the scriptures to prove "whether those things were so". Jesus quoted scripture. Jesus never referred to tradition except in a negative way. Jesus taught us to follow Him, not the church. |
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