Truth of Sola Scriptura

Sola Scriptura literally means "scripture alone".

This is the idea that scripture is all you need for the truth of God's Word.


There is a lot of dispute in the world of religion and theology about this practice. Some for it but most against it. Some of the religions that are against it is, Calvanism, Jehovahs Witnesses, Roman and Orthodox Catholic, and many more. They all share the common belief that you need the divine guidence of God to understand and interpret the bible or the guidence of the churches orginization. And added to that, there is the belief that the leaders are infallible and the church in itself is infallible. While this may sound good in theory, it is incorrect in practice. Let us look at some of the reasons why.

Lets start with the fact that Jesus Christ Himself, made over 100 references to scripture. He also asked consistently what the peoples reading of the law was and how they understood it(Luke 10:26-27). Now what is the importance of this quote? The importance is the fact that Christ asked a common man what his interpretation of the law was. This would also suggest that Christ was going by and using teachings that were already in scripture. If this were not true, why did He reference it?

There is also support of this in Matthew 11 where Christ is being tempted by Satan during His fasting. Christ told Satan numerous times, "For it is written". This is an important fact to notice, to see that Christ is using scripture as His source. If it was the way of Christ, is it not good enough for us to do?


There is a few quotes from a website that I would like to use,


# Strongly believe God was smart enough that He could write the Bible in such a way, so as to be understood when read.
# We believe that, who God created man, wrote the Bible in such a way, so that man would be able to understand the Bible unaided. It is ridiculous to for Catholic traditionalists, to write a book to prove we cannot understand the divinely authored Bible ourselves, while expecting us to understand their humanly authored book itself.
# We believe it is insulting to God to think that Catholic and Orthodox defenders can write a book and be understood by the common man unaided, but God cannot write the Bible and be understood unaided.
# We believe it is insulting to God to think that "personal illumination" defenders can write a book and be understood by the common man unaided by the Holy Spirit, but God cannot write the Bible and be understood unaided.
# We utterly reject the idea that only the church organization (which is nothing more than a few fallible men at the top) can understand the Bible.


There is a lot of truth in these statements. Where is the logic in the fact that an orginization of sinners can understand the bible (and claim authority over the bible) but no one else can? Wouldn't God have wanted all to read and understand His word?

1 Thessalonians 5:20-21 "20 Do not despise prophecies. 21 Test all things; hold fast what is good."

So are we to test all thing and hold what is good if we cannot understand what the scriptures teach? The answer is, we cannot. There is numerous scriptures that tell us to read the scriptures, not let a group of fallible sinners tell you what is true and what the bible is saying.



1. "that by revelation there was made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief. By referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit" Ephesians 3:3-5

2. "For we write nothing else to you than what you read and understand, and I hope you will understand until the end" 2 Corinthians 1:13

3. "from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus." 2 Timothy 3:15

Here are only a few of the references that Christ made to scripture:

# "Have you not read" Matthew 12:3
# "have you not read in the Law" Matthew 12:5
# "Did you never read in the Scriptures" Matthew 21:42
# "What is written in the Law? How does it read to you?" (Luke 10:26)
# Jesus said to them, "Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you do not understand the Scriptures or the power of God? (Mark 12:24)
# But Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor the power of God. (Matthew 22:29)
# "The Son of Man is to go, just as it is written of Him" There were any oral traditions as to who the messiah was. All were wrong! Some thought he was merely a king, some merely a prophet, some merely a priest! (Matthew 26:24)
# "What then is this that is written: 'The stone which the builders rejected, This became the chief corner stone'? (Luke 20:17)
# "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me (John 5:39)
# "How then will the Scriptures be fulfilled, which say that it must happen this way?" (Matthew 26:54)


Here are some examples of Scripture alone is all-sufficient for complete hope, joy and assurance of salvation without any oral tradition:

# For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. (Romans 15:4)
# These things we write, so that our joy may be made complete.1 John 1:4
# These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. 1 John 5:13



At this time, I will close with a few more questions.

Since when is oral traditon over scripture or written tradition? If there is an oral tradition that is not founded in scripture, or even the idea of it, one example is infant baptism, then it is not biblcal and exceeds scripture and is a tradition of men, We are told not to follow the traditions of men.

Mark 7:7-9 " 7 And in vain they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’8 For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men[b]—the washing of pitchers and cups, and many other such things you do.”9 He said to them, “All too well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition."


Is there any reason why someone would purposely go against the Word of God and the teachings of Christ?

Mary and Pagan Sun Gods

This should be interesting for all of you.

Throughout my search into the Catholic faith, its origins, and its history, there is something that I would like to share with you and it is yet again more proof that Catholicism is pagan.


The title "queen of heaven" in Catholicism was from the Council of Ephesus. It has been used almost as long as the catholic church has been around. The Catholic church uses Revelation 12 to justify their use of this term.

Rev 12: 1-5: A great and wondrous sign
appeared in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. Then another sign appeared in heaven; an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads. His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth so that he might devour her child the moment it was born. She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne.

1. The Woman in this Passage represents the Church. The twelve stars are the twelve Apostles.

2. The Woman represents Israel. The stars are the twelve tribes.

What is odd about this is the origin of the term "queen of heaven" is actually in reference to Ishtar, pagan Babylonian Goddess. In images of her, there is most always a circle disk behind her head. If you pay attention to the art of Mary throughout the age of Catholicism, you will see that most often, there is a disk behind her head. You have to ask yourself if this is intentional. Ishtar image in paintings and statues often show her with an infant with a disk behind the baby's head as well. I urge you to look at the history and the art behind this. It is very easy to see the connection.

With Ishtar being the goddess of fertility(it is said that she was also a sun goddess and a sea goddess as well) it shows the motherhood of her. The same is with Mary.

The Catholic Church denies this and it is understandable why. They do not want to admit the paganism within the church. They make the claim that there are terms used in scripture that were originated from paganism. While this is true, you have to look at how closely these two are to each other.

Ishtar was thought to be ever virginal and that she is the overseer of all things. Just like the Catholic Church declares Mary is.

I will be adding more to this at a later time.

Prayers to and for the dead

This is a topic that I have a hard time with. I do not believe that someone that has passed away can hear our prayers.


It is said in Ecclesiates 9:5- 6" 5The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten6Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun"


So what this is saying that the dead have no awareness of what is happening on earth, "under the sun". What is under the sun? The earth. To say that the dead know nothing, should be all the support that someone needs to know that praying to the dead (i.e. Mary and saints and family members) is pointless, as they cannot hear since they know nothing.

It is a common thought that Mary, the physical mother of Jesus Christ, can hear prayers. The scripture goes against this belief.

This practice is also used when someone dies and goes to"purgatory". First, the idea of a place such as this, is not within scripture. Second, the practice is to pay the church to hold a mass and to have people in to pray for the one that has passed away.

Matthew 23:14

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers.Therefore, you will receive grater condemnation".

This describes a purgatory mass perfectly. The belief is that anyone who dies who is not pure will go to purgatory. No one is pure! So this would have to mean that everyone would have to go to purgatory to pay for sins and become pure for God. This is ridiculous.

Christ was the sacrifice for our sins. To claim that we have to work off our sins is not only saying that the sacrifice of Jesus Christ was not enough, it is also a demonstration of salvation by works.

You cannot pray someone into heaven or to be saved. That is something that is to be done in our hearts. No matter how hard you try and pray, no matter how many do this, it will not change what is in that persons' heart.

Now, we are told that hell is a waiting place for the fallen until judgment and are cast into the Lake of Fire. This is not becoming "pure". Hell is a place of torment.

Just like the bible speaks of Abraham's Bosom. This is a resting place for the saved until judgment.

No one knows for sure since once you've passed you cannot come back to earth, and tell the world what happens. So, this is coming from the bible itself. The best source of truth that we have.

2nd Timothy 1:16-18
16"May God show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains.17 One the contrary, when he was in Rome, he searched hard for me until he found me.18 May the Lord grant that he will find mercy from the Lord on that day".

This is the main verse that the Catholic Church uses to justify praying for the dead.

The first thing to notice with this, is that verse 16 says "mercy on the household". Was the whole household dead?

The second, is in verse 18, "that he will find mercy". This is just saying that he hopes that the person he is talking about finds mercy with God. This is not a prayer.


I hope that I have made this issue clear from a biblical standpoint. May God be with you all.


In Him Alone....