Sola Patientia
The following quotation is from the King James version of Scripture;
James 1:
3 Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
4 But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
We have heard the proponents of Sola Scriptura argue from 2 Timothy 3:16-17 that because scripture tells us that the man who uses scripture as his guide, as his rule of faith, that he will be perfect, therefore scripture is teaching the doctrine of Sola Scriptura.
2 Timothy 3:
16 All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
By that same reasoning could we not then argue for Patience Alone, or Sola Patientia?
Far be it from me to create another Christian sect. Actually, I heard this from a Catholic Apologist, John Martignoni, and thought it was an interesting way to point out the tendency to read way too much into that passage from 2 Timothy. Suffice to say, scripture does not teach Sola Scriptura.
March 14th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
[...] I won’t go through it all again here, but I like this observation. I had never heard it before I got an e-mail from John Martignoni, the Catholic apologist the head of Bible Christian Society. The point is a simple one but right on the mark. I posted it over at North of the Shire. [...]