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Leighton Flowers– election; and my reformed response re-examined

  Leighton Flowers– election; and my reformed response re-examined Over the last three or four years, my conviction about what I once held to as a Christian have changed and grown. Now do not get me wrong: I am still a Christian– that has not changed; however, what has is that I am no longer reformed (or Calvinistic) as these ideas can only be forced upon scriptures from external theological presuppositions.  In other words,  when we allow the full contexts of every passage to be read from beginning to end– none of them can be read honestly to support such doctrines– so as you can tell from this small introduction I will not be concerned with such ideas after this re-examination.  Let me make a point here that helps us understand my new position: I am an advocate of what can be described as biblical theology; and not systematic theology. That is to say: we read the texts in context to see what the point that the Apostle or Prophet is making in the broader and much larger story narrativ
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Defence of Sola Scriptura: the need for a this truth to be known

Defence of Sola Scriptura:  the need for a this truth to be known   Introduction There seems to be an unrelenting attack on this most important pillar of the Protestant Reformation of late. Let us now turn our attention to one such argument which is put forth by both the Roman Catholic apologists and the orthodox apologists; in order that, we may  critique it. Sola scriptura: inadequacy and unbiblical nature.  The idea that the only rule of faith  for the Christian and the church is the text of scripture is itself a-historical and unbiblical     There was no canon of scripture in the early church for many centuries—in fact, it was not until the 7th century when John of Damascus that we got the canon as we know it. So this is a problem. The church has always operated on the foundation of there being two bodies of traditions.  The first is the oral (or spoken) in nature; the second is the written (the scriptures). It is easy to refute from scriptures themselves—there was no New Testament
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