Bible Christians, believers in Sola Scriptura, teach
that the Bible is complete and that it is all that is needed. They teach
that all answers are given by Scripture. I wish to refute that thinking
by showing that there are a lot of questions brought up in Scripture that
are not answered therein. So where do we go to find those answers so that
we have the fullness of truth and not just some of it?
Matthew 11:21, "Woe to thee, Corozain...For if in
Tyre and Sidon had been worked the miracles that have been worked in you,
they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes."
What are these miracles in Corozain? Where is the reference?
Matthew 23:2, "The Scribes and the Pharisees have
sat on the chair of Moses."
Where is this 'chair of Moses' referenced in Scripture?
1Corinthians 10:4, "And all drank the same spiritual
drink for they drank from the spiritual rock which followed them, and the
rock was Christ."
Where is the reference to the 'rock which followed them'?
Acts 20:35, "In all things I have shown you that
by so toiling you ought to help the weak and REMEMBER the Word of the Lord
Jesus, that He Himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
Show me the verse where Jesus said these words.
Matthew 2:23, "And He went and settled in a town
called Nazareth; that there might be fulfilled what was spoken through
the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene."
In what verse did the prophets say this?
James 4:5, "Or do you think that the Scripture says
in vain, "The Spirit which dwells in you covets unto jealousy.""
Where does Scripture reference this?
2Timothy 3:8, "Just as Jannes and Jambres resisted
Moses, so these men also resist the truth..."
Who are Jannes and Jambres? Where is the reference? If you know, by what
means did you find it?
Hebrews 11:35, "Women had their dead restored to
them by resurrection. Others were tortured, refusing to accept release,
that they might find a better resurrection."
Who are these 'others', the ones searching for a better resurrection? Where
is the Bible reference?
James 5:17, "Elias was a man like ourselves, subject
to the same infirmities; and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain
upon the earth, and it did not rain for three years and six months."
Where in Scripture does it say Elias 'prayed earnestly' that it might not
rain?
Jude 1:9, "Yet when Michael the Archangel was fiercely
disputing with the devil about the body of Moses..."
Where can this 'dispute' be found in Holy Scripture?
Jude 1:14, "Now of these also Enoch, the seventh
from Adam, prophesied, saying, 'Behold, the Lord has come with thousands
of His holy ones.'"
Where is this prophecy in Scripture? Where is the reference?
Since Protestants are bound to Scripture and Scripture
only (Sola Scriptura), they are not privileged to the answers to any of
these examples which I have shown here. However, the answers are found
by Catholics through tradition, and in the 7 books which Protestantism
removed from the Holy Bible, and in the Apocryphal books. Catholics have
the fullness of truth. They have all of the pieces of the puzzle. Protestantism
has many pieces missing to their puzzle of GOD's salvation history. As
long as they cling to the false doctrine of sola scriptura, they will never
see the full picture. They will never have the fullness of truth.
