“Bible verses that teach Sola Scriptura” (REBUTTED)

In this episode Trent critically examines the typical Bible verses Protestants offer as proof of the doctrine of sola scriptura.

[Dannyboy]

Why would God's plan of salvation be sola scriptura at a time when not many people could read?

[matthewbroderick]

No Protestant Pastor actually practices Scripture ALONE, as they place their own fallible interpretations above Holy Scripture.
Jesus Christ teaches, the bread, WHEN BLESSED, "is My Body ". ( Matthew 26:26) Fallible Protestant Pastors add the words Symbol and represents to the words of Jesus Christ!

[tinman]

IMHO sola scriptura is a logical absurdity. What scripture instructed the early Christians to add the New Testament scriptures to the Old? What scripture told them which writings to include in the New Testament and which to exclude? What scripture told Luther to throw out a handful of books from the New Testament? Sola scriptura seems to be a self-defeating argument.

[ajamusic]

I never understood why I should accept the presented definition of Sola Scriptura since it is defined from a source outside Scripture.

[mortensimonsen]

Sola Scriptura is by far the weakest of all Protestant doctrines. It is clearly an idea formed to rebel against the Church. My two favorite arguments are these:

1) The canonization was not complete before at least 325 AD. If you were a Christian in the year 324 you could not know infallibly if the letter to the Hebrews was in or out. It follows that Sola Scriptura was an impossible doctrine at the that time. If it was impossible until 325, then the only way to assert an infallible Scripture (necessary prerequisite for Sola Scriptura) would be to assert an infallible Council - or Church. Implicitly one would have to reject Sola Scriptura.

2) Take two Protestants, from two distinct denominations. Both should be the brighest of all men, learned in all the Bible and all commentaries. Both should be as holy as can be, ready to become saints. Both should have 100 years of life experience and all the gifts of the Spirit. Still they would come to different conclusions on how to read the Scripture. They simply cannot agree on all doctrines. This is not a crazy thought - I believe as should Protestants - that such men exists. Protestants proves every day Sola Scriptura is insufficient - they will always disagree.

[nofragmentado]

Trent te agradezco todo lo qué haces por evangelizar de la forma que lo haces. Tu paciencia, tu respeto y Amor para defender y hablar con nuestros hermanos protestantes es algo que no muchos lo tienen. Que Dios te bendiga siempre y te siga dando esa sabiduría para llevar y defender su evangelio.

[requiem]

How To Be Christian does video topics like these. Good stuff.

[aahlstrom]

If Sola Scriptura was real, and was real from the get-go as Protestant claim, then why in the Council of Acts do the leaders of the Church lay food restrictions on the gentile Christians with only the justification "It seems good to the Holy Spirit and to us"? -- why did the Christians not contest the councils decision and ask "Where on earth is your Biblical basis we need to abstain from these things as gentiles?" None is given. They say it seems good to the Holy Spirit and them. Can you imagine how Protestants react if we told them we want them to believe in something specific and our sole justification was that "Is seems good to us bishops and to God"? They would utterly reject what we ask them to believe. Yet, as the Holy Bible testifies, when this circumstance happened to the early Christians it apparently was accepted and obeyed without question.

Sola Scriptura is foreign doctrine to the Apostles. Perhaps Protestants could have a better case if they argued we should embrace Sola Scriptura as a matter of doctrinal development: "Hey, it's already written, it's handy, let's make it the sole infallible source of doctrine" -- yet they shoot themselves in the foot by trying to claim it was around by the time of Pentecost (or even before then), when the Church had all she needed to complete her mission. And the New Testament Scripture was NOT written at that time

[VACatholic]

One minor recommendation. When clipping some of these people, it might make sense to give an overlay that has the commentator's name on it. I realize that's not strictly required, but it would be incredibly helpful for people who aren't familiar with everyone in the video.

[verum-in-omnibus]

In addition to Trent‘s argument regarding second Timothy chapter 3, verses 15 through 17, what we call the New Testament had not been written nor the Church declared it to be scripture. So the only thing Paul could have been talking about is what we called the old testament. So would protestants then say all one needs is a solo Scriptura view of the Old Testament? You cannot apply Paul’s statement to our ancient Hebrew text to words that had not been written yet.

[danielespitia]

Sola Scriptura. Show me verse that supports the papacy and I’ll become a catholic. Christ is sufficient. No works required.

[uncledot]

The problem with Sola Scriptura is that, with no authority outside Sacred Scripture to appeal to, there is no way of knowing the correct interpretations of Sacred Scripture, hence a multitude of denominations founded by leaders who claimed to have The Holy Spirit and all disagreed with each other.

[nickw]

2 Thessalonians 2:15 “Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours.”

[andreeattieh]

Sola scriptura is why I'm Catholic

[JohnR.T.B.]

"So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. He asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” He replied, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to get in and sit beside him." (Acts 8: 30-31)

Most of us here know about the account of Philip meeting and baptizing the Ethiopian eunuch. It's clear that by reading Scripture alone, you cannot understand it properly, and so one needs the Holy Spirit, someone who has been assigned by the Spirit, to properly teach the Scripture according to the Way and the Truth. Therefore, Sola Scriptura is not possible, because you do not get ordained by the Bible, but by an authority that can give the power of the Holy Spirit, to give you the authority to interpret and teach Scripture. And if you're obliged to accept that there are the Scripture and the authority to handle the Scripture, hence you have accepted that Scripture alone or Sola Scriptura is not true.

"Then the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over to this chariot and join it.” So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. He asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” He replied, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to get in and sit beside him. Now the passage of the scripture that he was reading was this:

“Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter,
and like a lamb silent before its shearer,
so he does not open his mouth.
In his humiliation justice was denied him.
Who can describe his generation?
For his life is taken away from the earth.”

The eunuch asked Philip, “About whom, may I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?” Then Philip began to speak, and starting with this scripture, he proclaimed to him the good news about Jesus."
(Acts 8: 29-35)

[christianpena]

You're Amazing Trent! The Lord has certainly used your videos to help me convert from my former Protestant faith and I am now halfway through RCIA. Thank you for helping me find the fullness of the Truth!

[jakajakos]

Sola Scriptura is as unbiblical as the whole protestant project is.

[robertopacheco]

The Bereans "were more noble" because they agreed with Paul, plain and simple! It's not like other ancient Hebrews were ignorant of Scripture or thought it was not authoritative. You don't have "the word of God" without a teaching authority to rightly "divide the word of truth."

[m]

I don't understand how it is that non-catholics who hold to Sola Scriptura can maintain it without acknowledging human interpretive authority.

There's absolutely no consensus on Baptism, the Eucharist, Salvation etc...YET Sola Scriptura is True and so are their respective interpretive positions. Ugh...

[CalvinGomes]

I just wish so many of the Protestants who write here would actually listen to the video cause it is clear many don't and spurt out the same old statements that Trent has rebutted. These people sound more like the Thessalonicans than the Bareans.