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Baptists cannot even agree with each other? The chaos is worse than I thought.

Of course I believe. They were inspired by God and compiled together by the successors of the Apostles, the leaders of the One Universal (Catholic) Church, which was given the authority to do such things by Jesus Christ Himself. That is the truth and reflected in the historical record.

Sola Scriptura is a false gospel.

Step 1. The Church came before the New Testament and authority (Apostolic) resides within the Church, the Scriptures are authoritative. Jesus just did not write a book and leave it to the individual to figure things out for himself, that idea was never a part of Christianity for hundreds upon hundreds of years (over 1500 years to be exact). Real persons were needed to come up with the correct interpretation of the Scriptures, to guide the faithful.

Step 2. My proof is the historical record. It shows One Universal (Catholic) Christian Church that just about every Christian was a part of until the 11th century when the first great schism happened between the East and West. Even then, our Eastern brothers kept believing the very same things, i.e. the same sacraments, the same type of leadership with priests and Bishops, and looking to the same Early Fathers (Bishops) of the Church for guidance in the manner in which they interpreted the Holy Scriptures.

Your line of thought took another 500 to 600 years to come to fruition as the historical record also shows, brought about by renegade priests and others who then disagreed with them no less! And thus we have what we have today, hundreds if not thousands on new Christian sects each claiming that they have the real truth about the Christian way. Chaos, pure chaos within the Body of Christ.

 

So are you arguing the Church is superior to the written word of God given to it?

 

So are you arguing the written word of God taken by itself constitutes a false gospel?

 

No. I went from many Christians that don't believe an essential truth to other so-called Christians to the Spirit in many professing Christians.

I would like to see a unification between Seventh Day Baptists, Seventh-day Millerites, Advent Christians, and Seventh-day Adventists but working towards that very desirable goal seems insurmountable because there are no Seventh Day Baptist and Advent Christian churches near me. And most Seventh-day Adventist leaders are too encased in their own self-righteousness to believe that God requires them to seek the scattered, heal the broken and also to sustain those who are standing.

 

No. It's the idea that the Scriptures by themselves constitute the only way we are to be instructed in the Christian way.

 

So are you arguing God speaks to individuals directly about Christ crucified and being resurrected bodily from the dead?

 

THE CHURCH! THE CHURCH!, there is a Church that uses the Scriptures which are authoritative, they do not have authority. The CHURCH CAME BEFORE THE SCRIPTURES! The Bishop reads the scriptures and then interprets them with the authority that he has. You have read them and come up with a different interpretation. Even the eunuch needed a learned man to interpret them for him.

Traditions were established as the new Christian Church was growing BEFORE the scriptures were even available as we now know them. Things were transmitted ORALLY. Jesus never wrote anything down, all the writing down was an afterthought by others.

The Church had synods and councils to decide things, the decisions were made by real people, not the individual reading the scriptures by themselves as the Sola Scriptura believer does. The crucifixion and resurrection information was transmitted mouth to mouth, the first person who knew it happened did not write it down and disseminate it that way.

 

That is a key point. There are no legitimate churches today without the authority of the New Testament documents. They are today our only real Apostalic authority. Not of the descent men but God to men (the Apostles and church prophets who wrote) to us today.

 

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