{"id":1532,"date":"2006-03-01T00:16:21","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T22:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2015-07-21T13:24:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T11:24:39","slug":"sola-scriptura-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1532","title":{"rendered":"Sola Scriptura stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DiscussingAdventismBook\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1532\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"400px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1532\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div><p>Jesus left the Apostles in charge of his Church.\u00a0 He told them to go and teach, not write a book.\u00a0 Yes, the Bible is the word of God, but neither Jesus nor the Bible tell us that the Bible was to be our sole authority once the Apostles, the original Church leaders, had finished writing it.\u00a0 Even Paul tells us to continue believing\u00a0<em>both<\/em>\u00a0what he wrote to the congregations, <em>and\u00a0<\/em>what he taught verbally.\u00a0 A bit pointless if all he taught had been put into the texts they had.<\/p>\n<p>Rejecting the Church, and going on their own to read the Bible and interpret it for themselves, <a title=\"37000 denominations\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090309074243\/http:\/\/www.gordonconwell.edu\/ockenga\/globalchristianity\/resources.php\" target=\"_blank\">Protestantism has resulted in 37000 denominations &#8211; mid 2005<\/a>.\u00a0 While the number is debatable, and 37000 is obtained by counting individual congregations not united under a higher body, the fracturing of Christianity is obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus left the Apostles in charge of his Church.\u00a0 He told them to go and teach, not write a book.\u00a0 Yes, the Bible is the word of God, but neither Jesus nor the Bible tell us that the Bible was to be our sole authority once the Apostles, the original Church leaders, had finished writing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1532\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Sola Scriptura","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[182,236],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic","tag-protestantism","tag-sola-scriptura","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fpVQ-oI","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}