lsenders@hotmail.com writes:
>Stephen M. Adams wrote:

>> >So you can't blame this on "sola scriptura".
>>
>> Actually, I think we can. Modern evangelicals made as one of their
>> primary doctrines *THE* source of most heresies in the early church.
>>
>"evangelicals" needs to be defined. Truth be told, most "evangelicals"
>today wouldn't have a clue what 3, let alone 5 of the sola's are. They
>may claim some sort of quasi sola scriptura doctrinally, but they
>certainly don't live by it or actually teach it. Evangelical churches,
>largely, don't apply it to either their apologetics nor to their
>theology. It's a claimed presupposition but its mostly just a good
>feeling declaration.

I see your point. I was, in my article, aiming at the generally
conservative, reformed, independant churches that insist that doctrine
must come only from the Scriptures. A representative of this group
would be someone like John McArthur.

In this case, I meant anyone who held to the following (or close to
it):

the Bible constitutes the only infallible rule of faith and practice

as a core doctrine.

>Sola scriptura is based upon total depravity. This is the true
>presuppositional divider. You don't understand Reformed theology if
>you don't recognize this major point.

As has been stated here many times, the Scriptures teach neither
'sola scriptura' (as defined above) NOR total depravity.

-Stephen
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In article <116.34.21.05.826521000@srcbs.org>, Gary McNees says...
>

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>Matthew, thanks for the info. BUT are there many possibilities for the
>two verses wherein God describes Job?
>
>I looked briefly at 15 versions (standard accepted versions) and they
>all said basically the same thing about God's appraisal of Job.
>
>That Job might be mistaken about many things is no surprise. But what
>Bob says amounts to saying that God didn't know what HE was talking about.

Well, no, it is not quite that simple. Nobody doubts that in the time frame when
teh statement was made, Job was perfect. But many readers think he lost that
perfection the moment he opened his mouth in chapter 3 and "cursed the day he
was born". For his words _sound_ blasphemous. But in reality, they are not.
Learning to get past the appearance to the reality can be quite difficult!


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