Where in the Bible can the Doctrine of Sola Scriptura be found?
1) Excellent remark. “Sola scriptura” is actually an axiom of Lutheranism. There are actually five of them: “1 Sola scriptura (“by Scripture alone”) 2 Sola fide (“by faith alone”) 3 Sola gratia (“by grace alone”) 4 Solus Christus or Solo Christo (“Christ alone” or “through Christ alone”) 5 Soli Deo gloria (“glory to God alone”)” Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_solas 2) “Luther said, “a simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it”. The intention of the Reformation was to correct the perceived errors of the Catholic Church by appeal to the uniqueness of the Bible’s authority and to reject what Catholics considered to be Apostolic Tradition as a source of original authority alongside of the Bible, wherever Tradition did not have biblical support or where it supposedly contradicted Scripture.” “The Catholic Church from whence the Protestant broke away, and against which they directed these arguments, did not see Scriptu
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