SOLA. For the Word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates...

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For the Word of God is living and active.

Sharper than any double-edged sword,

it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow;

it judges the thoughts and attitudes

of the heart.

Hebrews 4: 12

SOLAYour word, O Lord, is eternal;

it stands firm in the heavens. Your faithfulness continues

through all generations;you established the earth, and it

endures. Your laws endure to this day,

for all things serve you.Psalm 119: 89-93

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Hebrew Scripture – Moses to Malachi

1500BC – 400BC

~300BC – Septuagint

Hebrew “Canon” – by 1st century BC

(Masoretic Text – Dead Sea Scrolls)

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New Testament – 1st century AD

“Canon” – 4th century

Manuscript evidence – 4th century

Early Church Fathers – 1st-5th centuries

Latin Vulgate – Jerome – 400AD

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…and on this rock I will build my church…

Matthew 16: 15-19

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Is it..Authoritative

PropheticAuthenticDynamic

Received, Read, Collected, Used

To establish Canon:

Josh McDowell – Evidence that Demands a Verdict

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From the Catechism of the Catholic Church

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Station 6 Way of the CrossVia Dolorosa

St. Veronica wipesthe face of Jesus

SOLATitle: Ineffabilis Deus

Descr.: On The Immaculate Conception Pope: Pope Pius IX Date: December 8, 1854

Title: Munificentissimus Deus Descr.: Defining The Dogma Of The Assumption

Of The Blessed Virgin Mary Into Heaven Pope: Pope Pius XII Date: November 1, 1950

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…and on this rock I will build my church…

Matthew 16: 15-19

SOLAIt has likewise defined that, if those

truly penitent have departed in the love of God, before they have made

satisfaction by worthy fruits of penance for sins of commission and

omission, the souls of these are cleansed after death by purgatorial

punishments;

Council of Florence - 1439

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Although we do not know which specific souls are in Purgatory, it is very possible that some of your friends and relatives are among the poor souls. Even persons who passed away long ago may still remain in Purgatory. It has been said seven years of penance is due for each mortal sin committed during one's life. It is good to assume that any particular loved one - no matter how good they appeared to you in life - may be in Purgatory.

http://www.mycatholicsource.com

SOLAand so that they may be released from

punishments of this kind, the suffrages of the living faithful are of advantage

to them, namely, the sacrifices of Masses, prayers, and almsgiving, and

other works of piety, which are customarily performed by the faithful

for other faithful according to the institutions of the Church.

Council of Florence - 1439

SOLAThe performance of meritorious

acts that go beyond what is required. In Catholic theology, these meritorious acts (performed by Mary and the Saints) contribute to a heavenly bank account known as the “Treasury of Merit.” The Pope can make withdrawals from this Treasury in order to shorten a person’s time in purgatory.

Supererogation

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"The superabundant store of the merits and satisfactions of Christ, which were beyond the needs of our salvation, to which are added the excess of the merits and satisfactions of our Lady and the saints. It is from this treasury that the Church grants indulgences.“

(Catholic Dictionary)

Treasury of Merits

SOLACanon 992

“An indulgence is the remission before God of temporal punishment for sins whose guilt is already forgiven, which a properly disposed member of the Christian faithful gains under certain and defined conditions by the assistance of the Church which as minister of redemption dispenses and applies authoritatively the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints." (1983 Code of Canon Law)

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07783a.htm

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John Wycliffe – 1300’s“It is not good for us to trust in our merits, in our virtues or our righteousness;but only in God’s free pardon, as given us through faith in Jesus Christ.”

“No man is to be credited for his mere authority’s sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.”

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John Wycliffe – 1300’s

“It is certain that the truth of the Christian faith becomes more evident the more the faith itself is known. Therefore, the doctrine should not only be in Latin but also in the common tongue, and as the faith of the Church is contained in the Scriptures, the more these are known in the true sense, the better.”

SOLAJan Hus – 1400’s

People should obey the Church only when the Church agrees with the Bible

Johannes Gutenberg – 1453the printing press

A Bible in every hand?A Bible in every hand?Or not?Or not?

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For in it [the Gospel] the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."NKJV

Martin Luther’s struggle – 1511

Romans 1: 17

Desiderius Erasmus– 1516Published Greek NT

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God imputes righteousness on those who are unrighteous

ScriptureScripture tells us this tells us thisGod’s God’s gracegrace allows it allows itIn In faithfaith we believe it we believe itThrough Through JesusJesus it is accomplished it is accomplishedGod is glorifiedGod is glorified

SOLA1517 – the rebellion peaks

Pope Leo X & Prince AlbertSt. Peter’s Basilica

John Tetzel

“As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, another soul from purgatory springs”

October 31, 1517Luther’s 95 Theses

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27. There is no divine authority for preaching that the soul flies out of the purgatory immediately when the money clinks in the bottom of the chest.

32. All those who believe themselves certain of their own salvation by means of letters of indulgence, will be eternally damned, together with their teachers.

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21. Hence those who preach indulgences are in error when they say that a man is absolved and saved from every penalty by the pope's indulgences.

50. Christians should be taught that, if the pope knew the exactions of the indulgence-preachers, he would rather the church of St. Peter were reduced to ashes than be built with the skin, flesh, and bones of the sheep.

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36. Any Christian whatsoever, who is truly repentant, enjoys plenary remission from penalty and guilt, and this is given him without letters of indulgence.

62. The true treasure of the church is the Holy gospel of the glory and the grace of God.

http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/history/95theses.htm

SOLAWilliam Tyndale – 1525

Translated NT from Greek into English & published – burned at the stake 1536

John Calvin – 1536Institutes of the Christian Religion

Council of Trent – 1545Indulgences, Latin, faith & works,

and our own Bible

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GratiaFide

ChristusDeo Gloria

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Ephesians 2: 8-10

By grace…aloneThrough faith…aloneNot by works

Righteousness from God…aloneThrough faith…alone

Christ…alonePhilippians 3: 7-11

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II Samuel 22: 31-32 (Psalm 18: 30-31)Perfect, flawless

Psalm 19: 7-8Perfect, trustworthy, right, radiant

Psalm 119: 89Your word, O LORD, is eternal

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II Peter 1: 20-21By the Holy Spirit

II Timothy 3: 14-17Salvation through Jesus ChristGod-breathedUseful for….

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ScripturScripturaaGod-breathed

(Theopnuestos/pneuma)

John 14: 26Teach you – remind you

John 16: 13Spirit of Truth – guide youNot speaking on His ownWhat is to come

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ScripturScripturaaDo not add

Do not subtract

Deuteronomy 4: 1-2Revelation 22: 18-19

Then how did we get the New Testamentwithout violating Deuteronomy?

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Koran (The Cow) 2: 106

Whatever a Verse (revelation) do We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, We bring a better

one or similar to it. Know you not that Allâh is

able to do all things?

Joseph Smith – 1830’sMary Baker Eddy – 1870’s

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ScripturScripturaa

II Corinthians 11: 1-4Galatians 1: 6-9

An open door to new revelation?

A different JesusA different GospelA different spirit

Minds being led astray, being deceivedMinds being led astray, being deceived

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Stephen CharnockThe Existence and Attributes of God

“All truth is to be drawn from Scripture. …the Scripture is the source of divine knowledge; not the traditions of men, nor reason separate from Scripture. Whosoever brings another doctrine, coins another Christ; nothing is to be added to what is written, nothing detracted from it.”

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John Wycliffe – 1300’s

“It is not good for us to trust in our merits, in our virtues or our righteousness;but only in God’s free pardon, as given us through faith in Jesus Christ.”

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I Peter 3: 18

For Christ died for sins once for all,

the righteous for the unrighteous,

to bring you to God.

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GratiaGratia

Ephesians 2: 1-10

…we were by nature objects of wrath

……it is by grace you have been it is by grace you have been savedsaved

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Titus 2: 11

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared

to all men.

Hebrews 2: 9

……He suffered death, so that by He suffered death, so that by the grace of God…the grace of God…

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GratiaGratia

……in order that in the coming in order that in the coming ages he might show the ages he might show the

incomparable riches of his incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his grace, expressed in his

kindness to us in Christ Jesus.kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2: 4-7

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GratiaGratia

Acts 15: 5-11

…it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved…

Romans 11: 5-6

……by grace, then it is no longer by grace, then it is no longer by works – or it would not be by works – or it would not be

“grace”“grace”

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GratiaGratia

Galatians 2: 19-21

I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law,

Christ died for nothing.

Galatians 1: 6-7Galatians 3: 1-3

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FideFide

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by

works, so that no one can boast.

Ephesians 2: 8-10

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FideFide

Now faith is Now faith is the the substancesubstance of things of things

hoped for, hoped for, the the evidenceevidence of things not of things not

seen.seen.

Hebrews 11: 1NKJV

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FideFide

Abram believed the Abram believed the Lord, Lord,

and he credited it to and he credited it to him him

as righteousness.as righteousness.Genesis 15: 6

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FideFide

…not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the

law, but that which is through faith in Christ — the righteousness that comes from God and is by

faith.Philippians 3: 7-9

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FideFide

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what

principle? On that of observing the law?

No, but on that of faith.

Romans 3: 20, 21-28

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FideFide

Faith without works is deadJames 2: 26

…work produced by faithI Thessalonians 1: 2-3…every act prompted by faith

II Thessalonians 1: 11

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God’s work – which is by faithI Timothy 1: 3-4

For we are God's workmanship, For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus created in Christ Jesus

to do good works, to do good works, which God prepared in advance which God prepared in advance

for us to do.for us to do.Ephesians 2: 10

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FideFide

The Council [of Trent] fathers continued by saying, "If anyone says that the sinner is

justified by faith alone, meaning that nothing else is required to cooperate in order to obtain the grace of justification

and that it is not in any way necessary that he be prepared and disposed by the action

of his own will, let him be anathema" (Session 6: can. 9).

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FideFide

In the same way, faith by itself, In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by if it is not accompanied by

action, action, is deadis dead

James 2: 14-26

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FideFide

……make every effort make every effort to add to your faith…to add to your faith…

II Peter 1: 2-11

……make your make your calling calling

and election and election sure…sure…

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ChristusChristus

It is blasphemy to say that the insignia of the cross

with the papal arms are of equal value to the cross on

which Christ died.Martin Luther – Thesis #79October 1517

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ChristusChristus

I am the wayI am the wayand the truthand the truthand the life.and the life.

No one comes to the No one comes to the Father except through Father except through

Me.Me.John 14: 6

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ChristusChristus

Go into all the world and Go into all the world and preach the good news to all preach the good news to all

creation. creation. Whoever believes and is Whoever believes and is

baptized will be saved, but baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe whoever does not believe

will be condemned.will be condemned.Mark 16: 15-16

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ChristusChristus

Whoever believes in him is Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but not condemned, but

whoever does not believe whoever does not believe stands condemned already stands condemned already

because he has not because he has not believed in the name of believed in the name of God's one and only Son.God's one and only Son.John 3: 17-18

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ChristusChristus

Salvation is found in no one Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other else, for there is no other name under heaven given name under heaven given

to men by which to men by which we must be saved.we must be saved.

Acts 4: 8-12

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ChristusChristus

For there is one God and For there is one God and one mediator between God one mediator between God and men, the man Christ and men, the man Christ

Jesus, who gave himself as Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all mena ransom for all men

I Timothy 2: 1-6

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ChristusChristus

But now he has reconciled But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical you by Christ's physical body through death to body through death to present you holy in his present you holy in his

sight, without blemish and sight, without blemish and free from accusationfree from accusation

Colossians 1: 15-23

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ChristusChristus

……so as to be just so as to be just and the one who justifies and the one who justifies those who have faith in those who have faith in

JesusJesus

Romans 3: 20-31

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ChristusChristus

Christ Christ alonealone is worthy is worthy

Revelation 5

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Deo GloriaAscribe to the Lord, Ascribe to the Lord,

O families of nations,O families of nations,ascribe to the Lord ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord Ascribe to the Lord

the glory due his namethe glory due his name

Psalm 96: 7-8

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Deo GloriaSon of Man:Son of Man:

Betrayed, rejectedBetrayed, rejectedHanded over for Handed over for

crucifixioncrucifixionSufferSuffer

3 days in earth3 days in earthRaised to life on 3Raised to life on 3rdrd day day

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Deo Gloria

Like the rest, we were by Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.nature objects of wrath.

But…But…Alive with ChristAlive with Christ

Raised with ChristRaised with ChristSeated with ChristSeated with Christ

Ephesians 2: 1-10

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Deo Gloria

This mystery is that This mystery is that through the gospel the through the gospel the

Gentiles are heirs together Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members with Israel, members

together of one body, and together of one body, and sharers together in the sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus. promise in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 3:

1-12

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Deo Gloria

For the foolishness of For the foolishness of God God

is wiser than man’s is wiser than man’s wisdomwisdom

I Corinthians 1: 18-30

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Deo Gloria

Without the Spirit – Without the Spirit – foolishnessfoolishness

With the Spirit – wisdom of With the Spirit – wisdom of GodGod

We have the mind of ChristWe have the mind of ChristI Corinthians 2: 6-16

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Deo GloriaPsalm 96:1-8Psalm 96:1-8

Sing to the Lord a new song;Sing to the Lord a new song;sing to the Lord, all the earth. sing to the Lord, all the earth.

Sing to the Lord, praise his Sing to the Lord, praise his name;name;

proclaim his salvation proclaim his salvation day after day. day after day.

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Declare his glory among the Declare his glory among the

nations,nations,his marvelous deeds his marvelous deeds among all peoples. among all peoples.

For great is the Lord and most For great is the Lord and most worthy of praise;worthy of praise;

he is to be feared above all he is to be feared above all gods.gods.

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For all the gods of the nations For all the gods of the nations are idols,are idols,

but the Lord made the but the Lord made the heavens. heavens.

Splendor and majesty are Splendor and majesty are before him;before him;

strength and glory strength and glory are in his sanctuary. are in his sanctuary.

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Ascribe to the Lord, Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations,O families of nations,ascribe to the Lord ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. glory and strength.

Ascribe to the Lord Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his namethe glory due his name

SOLAScriptura

GratiaFide

ChristusDeo Gloria

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