Nothing more disgusting than Romanism.
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The Pope is a symptom of the unbiblical church.
I would never attempt to prove sola scriptura from scripture as it is neither biblical nor do I accept it as valid.
As for "Eat my flesh plus unbiblical writing" and "Upon this rock", engaging those directly might make for an interesting intellectual exercise but the most straightforward rebuttal is to expose their own hypocrisy. They want to present proof texts when convenient for them but routinely ignore the bible completely whenever it contradicts one of their traditions. They don't get to ignore broad swaths of scripture and then try to poke me in the eye with a single sentence that they rip out of its context. That's propaganda, not sound doctrine.
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The "They" could be replaced with just about any group claiming to be Christian. They all have this particular problem.
Quite so!
Exactly! Their argument is flawed from several directions. Our position isn't "sola scriptura" to being with, but more than that, we do not appose tradition either. Tradition is fine so long as the tradition doesn't contradict either divinely inspired scripture or the conclusions of sound reason.
The church I grew up in takes communion every single time there is a church service. That's their tradition. I do not object to the practice on the basis of the fact that it's a long practiced tradition. Some churches have it associated with Passover and only partake on Easter Sunday. Some churches do it at random intervals, specifically for the purpose of avoiding turning into something more than it aught to be. Other don't do it at all! Right or wrong, the frequency and manner can be considered a tradition within that sect of Christianity and there is no proper argument either for or against their practice that has as it's primary premise the fact that it is a tradition. Any proper argument must be based on objective truth. Whether it's a tradition or not is irrelevant.
It is precisely the objectively true nature of scripture that makes it our doctrinal standard and even that is secondary to the most foundational premise of God's character and the fact that He is the One who authored scripture.
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That is the impression I get reading what Paul said in one of his many rebukes. And I do it exactly as Paul stated, which expounded on "do this in memory of me". Which is that we proclaim his death until he returns. It wasn't that way for me 25 years ago.
And blasphemous to call it the throne of David.