Post by RayW on Mar 17, 2013 6:04:08 GMT -8
Please post your answers to the following questions:
1. Read Jude 1:3; 1 Cor. 11:2; and 2 Thess. 2:15. Knowing that the traditions spoken of in the New Testament are simply summaries of the Gospel that have been passed on from one person to another, do sermons in evangelistic crusades and Sunday sermons qualify for traditions? Explain.
2. Why do you think Roman Catholics find it so attractive to have a living authority other than Scripture that authoritatively pronounces on matters of faith and morals? What is the danger of this?
3. (Advanced question) Roman Catholic apologists often accuse Protestants of holding to the “novel” doctrine of sola Scriptura which was not known until the sixteenth-century. Is this true? Explain. An “anachronistic fallacy” is when one demands that someone find or enforce a contemporary articulation of an idea, term, or concept upon people of earlier times. How do Roman Catholics commit this fallacy when they 1) interpret the word “tradition” in Scripture and the early Church fathers and 2) when they demand that Protestants find an articulation of sola Scriptura in Scripture or the early Church fathers?
4. How have you been frustrated by the practical disunity in the Protestant Church today?
5. Do you think that this disunity needs to be solved? If so, how would you suggest the Protestant Church create unity, and how absolute should this unity be?
6. Do you believe that the doctrine of sola Scriptura has been abused in the Protestant church? Give examples.
7. Do you believe that the Bible supports the sola Scriptura theory or the dual-source theory more?
8. How has this lesson most challenged your thinking?
1. Read Jude 1:3; 1 Cor. 11:2; and 2 Thess. 2:15. Knowing that the traditions spoken of in the New Testament are simply summaries of the Gospel that have been passed on from one person to another, do sermons in evangelistic crusades and Sunday sermons qualify for traditions? Explain.
2. Why do you think Roman Catholics find it so attractive to have a living authority other than Scripture that authoritatively pronounces on matters of faith and morals? What is the danger of this?
3. (Advanced question) Roman Catholic apologists often accuse Protestants of holding to the “novel” doctrine of sola Scriptura which was not known until the sixteenth-century. Is this true? Explain. An “anachronistic fallacy” is when one demands that someone find or enforce a contemporary articulation of an idea, term, or concept upon people of earlier times. How do Roman Catholics commit this fallacy when they 1) interpret the word “tradition” in Scripture and the early Church fathers and 2) when they demand that Protestants find an articulation of sola Scriptura in Scripture or the early Church fathers?
4. How have you been frustrated by the practical disunity in the Protestant Church today?
5. Do you think that this disunity needs to be solved? If so, how would you suggest the Protestant Church create unity, and how absolute should this unity be?
6. Do you believe that the doctrine of sola Scriptura has been abused in the Protestant church? Give examples.
7. Do you believe that the Bible supports the sola Scriptura theory or the dual-source theory more?
8. How has this lesson most challenged your thinking?