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paxchristi2d ago
Hey @freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg since @356875ff…bf96a2e8 doesn't feel like answering this one, do you think you could take a stab at it? If you find in uncharitable, please forgive me. I do think it's a reasonable question to ask someone who believes sola scriptura. Thanks!
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freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg1d ago
The doctrine of _sola scriptura_ is not really about 'which books' but about the ground of authority--is it in God or is it in men? Do the Scriptures create the church, or does the church 'create' the Scriptures? Does the church recognize and receive the inherent and self-attesting authority in the Scriptures, or does the church 'bestow' its authority on the Scriptures? The Creator-creature distinction requires the former option in each of the three questions above. That's the essence of this argument between the Roman denomination and the Protestant & Reformed denominations. Both sides of the argument make an appeal to authority--but the former appeals to its own man-based authority, and the latter appeals to divine authority. But to your question in particular, I think Jerome had the better canonics (vs. Augustine) even though I tend follow Augustine's soteriology (contra Rome, which returned to semi-Pelagianism centuries ago).
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