Soula Scriptura

[u/No_Bag2218]

I don’t understand this Protestant concept. If you believe soula scriptura, wouldn’t you then not go to a church where a Father or an elder explains the Bible because his words aren’t the written word of god? Didn’t Jesus choose his apostles to spread the word of god through vocalization as many of the gentiles couldn’t read? When someone is confused with the scripture they ask questions for interpretation throughout the Bible, doesn’t this contradict soula scriptura? Lastly, if soula scriptura is your belief wouldn’t one have to learn Greek or Latin and make his own translation of the written word of god as it originally appears and not translated to a common tounge to be possibly misinterpreted? Pleas help me out here I’m genuinely confused.

[u/Visible_Technology_1]

That scripture does not prove Sola Scriptura. Even people who do not agree with Sola Scriptura agree that scripture is profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction. That Scripture does not state that scripture ALONE is the only profitable source of those things. 

[u/Metalcrack → u/Visible_Technology_1]

Of course not. But it is the only with authority to be used for doctrine, for proving doctrine, to correct false doctrine, used for the very foundation of faith, and how to be saved.

If you do not understand the book of Daniel, reading a book about it IS profitable for knowledge. What do you use to check if that explanatory book is accurate.....your uncle Bob? No, the Bible.

A church has a Statment of Confession of the Catachism of Latter Day Conventions. Are their beliefs heretical...... How would you access this?

What if a church leader says "all religions are a path to God” . Are you to take that at their word.....? No you are to be like the Bereans, and see if it is so Acts 17:11 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. Where did they check? Vogue magazine? The answer is John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Therefore this leader was proven wrong by the highest authority, which is God's word, alone. Not by a man's word.

How about a prominent voice in Protestantism telling you that saying a prayer will save you? Believe it as its on TV....... or Romans 10:9-10 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. You must be born again as Jesus stated in John 3:3-7 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. Therefore this leader was proven wrong by the highest authority, which is God's word, alone. Not by a man's word.

So again I say 2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. God made sure what we needed was in the Bible. The Bible is the only authority.

[u/Visible_Technology_1 → u/Metalcrack]

Where did you get the Bible you have? How do you authoritatively know that you have the right canon? 

[u/Metalcrack → u/Visible_Technology_1]

I use and reference two different versions. I mainly use the King James and the NASB, which are word for word. KJV was translated from the original Greek Textus Receptus and the Masoretic texts for the old testament. Nothing more definitive. I have read most of the apocryphal texts and Enoch I as well.

As you are here questioning, what other than the Bible is to be used for doctrine and which version of the Bible is best?