Sola Scriptora Cont.

Well Greetings everyone (that is if any still is looking at this),

I thought that I would wait a long time before I put on the continuation of the last blog. Ok, maybe I didn't mean for it to be this long, but you know how time flies. Anyway, I said last time that the concept of Scripture Alone is one of the five most important points of the Reformation. This is the first and the most important point. Form this point all other doctrines of the Reformation flow. The Catholic Church of the Middle ages had strayed away from the early form of Christianity. Many of the erroneous ideas of the Catholic Church come from the fact that over about one thousand years the church view the Scriptures less and less. It was so bad that at the time of Luther the Pope's words were more important than the Bible. The Catholic's had kept the Bible from the common people by only letting it be translated in Latin, a language which only church officials and highly educated people could comprehend. This resulted in the people having to depend on the Priests and the Pope to tell them what the Bible said. Of coarse the Pope never twisted the Words of Scripture(Yea right).

So when the Fathers of the Reformation found the Truth of the Bible, they were overjoyed. They held a high and exalted view of the Scriptures. This came oyt in the Reformation art. Hence the statue of Farrell, he is standing there holding his Bible up high. Almost like he is saying to you and to me, "Look, see, come and read the Word of the living God". This statue epitomizes the heart of the Reformation, namely that the Word of God alone contains the Truth. Notice I did not just say truth, I said the Truth. Now don't mistake me, the Bible does not contain exhaustive Truth about life, But what it does contain is the Truth. The Truth that the Bible contains works as a frame for the rest of life. More on this will follow tomorrow.

By Grace Alone
Reformationman