“No Book But The Bible” is Unbiblical!
There
are at least two reasons for this.
(1)
The Bible itself is full of creeds,
confessions, and catechism!
The
following passages prove that it is unbiblical to say “No creeds! Or
confessions! Or catechism!”
Creeds
and Confessions:
Deuteronomy
6:4
Matthew
16:16
Matthew
28:18
Romans
10:9
1
Corinthians 8:6
1
Corinthians 12:3
1
Corinthians 15:3—7
Philippians
2:6—11
Colossians
1:15—20
1
Timothy 3:16
1
John 4:2
Catechesis:
Luke
1:1—4
Acts
18:24—25
Hebrews
6:1—2
(2)
The apostles commanded their disciples to preserve the essentials of the Faith
for future generations of the church, and they intended this to happen by means
of creeds, confessions, and catechism.
Consider
these words from the apostle Paul to his beloved disciple Timothy.
Follow
the pattern of the sound words that
you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. By the
Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard
the good deposit entrusted to you (2 Timothy 1:13—14 ESV).
The
“pattern of sound words” is earlier called “sound doctrine” by Paul.
“Sound doctrine, in accordance with the
gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted” (1 Timothy 1:10c-11 ESV).
These
“sound words” or “sound doctrine” do not point directly to the Bible, but
rather to summaries and core
doctrines that express what the Bible teaches on the most important facts of
the gospel. These are what early church fathers, like Clement, Irenaeus and
Tertullian later called the Regulae Fides,
that is the Latin for the “Rule of Faith.” This referred to the summary of the
non-negotiable key doctrines of the Christian faith, which have been believed
and expressed by all Christians in the Apostles’ Creed for nearly 1700 years.
The
apostles, then, commanded the core commitments of the Faith, as faithfully
deduced from Scripture, according to the apostles’ understanding of the meaning
and purpose of Father’s plan in sending Jesus Christ into the world, whose work
is then applied to the church, individually and corporately, through the power
and presence of the Holy Spirit.
Therefore,
“No book but the Bible” is actually against the teaching of the Bible!
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