@BishopJaxi WRONG
"Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he." Matthew 11:11
That’s not a rebuttal, it just restates the same circular claim:
“The Church is the authority because the Church, guided by the Spirit, says it is.” That logic can justify any institution’s supremacy. The Bereans didn’t rely on a Church to validate Scripture, they tested even apostles by it (Acts 17:11). Authority starts with God’s Word, not man’s councils.
@1980srock@BishopJaxi Saying tradition “overrides” Scripture assumes the Church has authority over God’s Word, because the Church "said so." That’s circular reasoning. Scripture judges the Church (Acts 17:11), not the reverse.
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The confusion isn’t with Protestants — it’s with those who refuse to distinguish between authority and final authority.
Yes, we consider church history, commentaries, and tradition. But unlike Rome, we don’t elevate them above Scripture. All voices are subject to one standard: “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them” (Isaiah 8:20).
The Bereans didn’t blindly trust “how the early church understood Scripture.” They searched the Scriptures daily to test everything — even the apostles. That’s the biblical model.
That argument doesn’t mean Scripture isn’t clear — it means people are fallible. The solution isn’t to hand authority over to another fallible interpreter (like Rome’s magisterium), it’s to rightly handling the Word (2 Tim. 2:15).
Jesus didn’t say, “Go ask the religious elite what the Bible means.” He said, “Have you not read…?” (Matthew 19:4). The standard is the Word itself, not a man-made institution pretending to sit above it.
We test interpretations by Scripture itself.
@Alexand18871557@dragodimitrov No—God’s Word is. The individual is accountable to it, not over it. Unlike Rome, we don’t replace Scripture with man-made tradition and call it authority.
@JoseDel35933978@Alexand18871557@dragodimitrov Aww, a Catholic mocking personal responsibility for knowing God’s Word. No surprise from a religion that fears Scripture in the hands of the people.
The same people who were commended for doing exactly that in Acts 17:11—the Bereans. God doesn’t delegate the interpretation of His Word to a religious institution like the RC church. He holds each individual accountable for searching the Scriptures to verify truth. John 5:39, 2 Timothy 3:16–17, and Galatians 1:8–9 make it clear: God’s Word is the standard. Not councils. Not traditions. Not popes.
So who makes the determination?
Anyone who fears God and opens the Bible.