Why I Can't Accept Sola Scriptura

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Former Protestant Pastor Keith Nester shares his views on what Sola Scriptura is and why he can't accept it. What do you think? Share your comments below.

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[jackieo]

Funny thing about sola scriptura.... it's not found in the Bible

[ScottMitchell-xp]

Just got confirmed into the Catholic Church this past January at 56 years old. This topic needed to be addressed and you did a great job, God Bless!

[b.gauthier]

I remember, back when I was a brand new "born again" Christian, I met with a priest on campus to discuss faith with him. I brought up the "sola scriptura" argument. He tried to explain tradition to me. I was so full of prejudices that I never tried to understand what he was explaining. I had my own definition of the word "tradition" and applied it without discrimination. I felt thus justified in rejecting it, along with all the other Catholic beliefs. I do not think that priest failed me that day, I just wasn't open and ready. I was on a mission to evangelise him, not to be taught myself. Today - years later - I have converted back to Catholicism with a much better understanding of what is meant by the Church tradition.
I know for a fact that misunderstanding of Church Tradition is great among protestants. As with many other things, they run with their own personal perception/interpretation, and it's true enough for them to live by.
If it hasn't been done yet on this channel, for the sake of your protestant audience, it'd be very useful to explain what the Church means when referring to its tradition.
Thank you, Keith, for your testimony. It has contributed greatly to my "re-conversion" to Catholicism.

[cvu]

The whole purpose of the New Testament letters sent to other churches was to control them from teaching their own ideas. You were a church in the 1st century because it was started by an apostle or a disciple of an apostle. When you got a “letter” it was from Paul or Peter and was meant for you to follow order or structure of their teachings. No church was created outside of disciples or apostles following apostolic teaching.

[sarahbraga]

Amen! People make the Catholic faith to be so complicated and always searching to prove us wrong! So many questions of doubting. So many Thomas’s in the world, It is very simple……One day, they will find out!!

[TheBadTrad]

Because it’s a self refuting protestant construct that wasn’t taught or believed for the first 1500 years of Christianity?

I’m looking forward to you breaking this one down, brother!

[atoadigi]

I was recently watching a discussion between a Catholic and protestant and the protestant finally agreed (after some great explanations/apologetics from the Catholic) that not everything about salvation and our faith is explained explicitly in the bible. Then they moved on to the next subject which was intercession of Our Blessed Mother and the saints and the first thing out of her mouth was, "You're going to have to show me where this is in the scriptures because I can't find it anywhere" right after she finally agreed that not everything is explicitly explained to us in the bible. I wanted to scream, I had to turn it off.

[michaelwarren]

As a Catholic revert of over 15 years i have seen many converts on YouTube over the years and i must say you and Scott Hahn are the most effective in proclaiming the Fullness of the Gospel. on a personal note i want to say thanks for the example you and your wife set for cradle Catholics who may not understand the COURAGE it took to walk away from your former protestant ministry! once again my brother in Christ...THANKS!

[billlee]

As I read through the varied comments, including mine, I'm struck with the lack of unity we share between the two camps. To my Protestant brethren, I ask, where is the visible church today that Jesus built on Peter? I see no chance for unity outside that visible church. Tell us where it is so we can all come together in it for the unity we desperately need? It should be obvious to us all that Scripture 'alone' does not foster that unity.

[Mr.CUTE]

SOLA -SKIPTURA, only creates further more disunity and confusion..

A former Pastor here in the Philippines, He confessed that, Once a Pastor created his own Church. He can do whatever he wants, the teaching, the theologies, his rules, the organizational structure of his church, everything are all man made Doctrines.. The way he wanted his church to be structured..

[Myohomoto]

Cut and paste approach to the Bible is the hallmark of the protestant faiths. Bad tailoring...MAKE it fit. 😮

[RubesGoodBrainCoffee]

I feel like the spirit of Chesterton is saying to me while I'm watching this video: They declare that they will not recognize the authority of a pope, and then proceed to recognize that every man is his own pope.

[titalen]

Sola scriptura was popularized only in the yr 1500 which becomes the basis of founding thousands of man-made churches.
Our Lord Jesus built His church (Matt 16:18). The pillar & foundation of truth ( 1 Tim 3:15)

[RGWerd]

We are told by Protestants “Sola Scriptura is the only infallible source of truth”…

I love to follow up with, “is that an infallible statement?”

It gets their wheels turning…

[katieforrest]

Great Job Keith! I say its not Sola Scriptura that one argues its Sola interpretation. They dont realize it but what that are saying is “My interpretation of Scripture is Authoritative” its how I interpret what the inerrant word says even though I am infallible and people still come up with different interpretations …… As Catholics we uphold to the truth and authority of Scripture. We believe in the Truth of Scripture. And we believe in the context in which scripture is truth and that is in the means of the Holy Church guided by the Holy Spirit to keep to the Truths of scripture. The Church cannot contradict scripture. And you cannot have scripture without the Church. The two pillars work in tandem. So, I would claim if we are going by what Scripture teaches, only the Church has the Authority of having scripture. The Church is the pillar and foundation of Truth.

[sdui]

Thanks for this Keith. Gives me something to think about. 💫🙏💫

[jediv]

*Roman Catholics love going against God and His Words. 180+ verses say Jesus, Apostles and NT Church appealed to Scriptures Only for doctrines. Not once they took doctrines from traditions of Moses or Pharisees. This is already Sola Scriptura.*

*Roman ct members love defying God and His Words.*

31 Verses Found, 31 Matches
Mar 12:10 Have you not even read this Scripture: 'THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE.
Mar 15:28 So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "AND HE WAS NUMBERED WITH THE TRANSGRESSORS."
Luk 4:21 And He began to say to them, "Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."
Joh 2:22 Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.
Joh 7:38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water."
Joh 7:42 Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?"
Joh 10:35 If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),
Joh 13:18 "I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'HE WHO EATS BREAD WITH ME HAS LIFTED UP HIS HEEL AGAINST ME.'
Joh 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Joh 19:24 They said therefore among themselves, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be, " that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says: "THEY DIVIDED MY GARMENTS AMONG THEM, AND FOR MY CLOTHING THEY CAST LOTS." Therefore the soldiers did these things.
Joh 19:28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I thirst!"
Joh 19:36 For these things were done that the Scripture should be fulfilled, "NOT ONE OF HIS BONES SHALL BE BROKEN."
Joh 19:37 And again another Scripture says, "THEY SHALL LOOK ON HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED."

21 Verses Found, 21 Matches
Mat 21:42 Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the Scriptures: 'THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE. THIS WAS THE LORD'S DOING, AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES' ?
Mat 22:29 Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.
Mat 26:54 How then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen thus?"
Mat 26:56 But all this was done that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples forsook Him and fled.
Mar 12:24 Jesus answered and said to them, "Are you not therefore mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures nor the power of God?
Mar 14:49 I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize Me. But the Scriptures must be fulfilled."

127 Verses Found, 132 Matches
Mat 2:5 So they said to him, "In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet:
Mat 4:4 But He answered and said, "It is written, 'MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD.' "
Mat 4:6 and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: 'HE SHALL GIVE HIS ANGELS CHARGE OVER YOU, ' and, IN THEIR HANDS THEY SHALL BEAR YOU UP, LEST YOU DASH YOUR FOOT AGAINST A STONE.' "
Mat 4:7 Jesus said to him, "It is written again, 'YOU SHALL NOT TEMPT THE LORD YOUR GOD.' "
Mat 4:10 Then Jesus said to him, "Away with you, Satan! For it is written, 'YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND HIM ONLY YOU SHALL SERVE.' "
Mat 11:10 For this is he of whom it is written: 'BEHOLD, I SEND MY MESSENGER BEFORE YOUR FACE, WHO WILL PREPARE YOUR WAY BEFORE YOU.'
Mat 21:13 And He said to them, "It is written, 'MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER, ' but you have made it a 'DEN OF THIEVES.'"
Mat 26:24 The Son of Man indeed goes just as it is written of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born."
Mat 26:31 Then Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: 'I WILL STRIKE THE SHEPHERD, AND THE SHEEP OF THE FLOCK WILL BE SCATTERED.'
Mat 27:37 And they put up over His head the accusation written against Him: THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Mar 1:2 As it is written in the Prophets: "BEHOLD, I SEND MY MESSENGER BEFORE YOUR FACE, WHO WILL PREPARE YOUR WAY BEFORE YOU."
Mar 7:6 He answered and said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: 'THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR FROM ME.
Mar 9:12 Then He answered and told them, "Indeed, Elijah is coming first and restores all things. And how is it written concerning the Son of Man, that He must suffer many things and be treated with contempt?
Mar 9:13 But I say to you that Elijah has also come, and they did to him whatever they wished, as it is written of him."
Mar 11:17 Then He taught, saying to them, "Is it not written, 'MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL NATIONS' ? But you have made it a 'DEN OF THIEVES.'"
Mar 14:21 The Son of Man indeed goes just as it is written of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had never been born."
Mar 14:27 Then Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: 'I WILL STRIKE THE SHEPHERD, AND THE SHEEP WILL BE SCATTERED.'

[PaulDo]

Keith- Every Protestant in some way accepts Sola Scriptura. It's completely a different way of thinking and is a form of spiritual blindness. Do you have any suggestions how to approach this issue that would have been particularly helpful for you before your conversion? It's such a self-serving belief. Thanks!

[felicisimojavier]

The fullness of truth is found in the Catholic Church,
period.

[HisPromiseU]

I’ve missed most of the live, but God bless you for speaking the truth. I’ve subscribed. 🙏🏼✝️🕊️