Prima Scriptura vs. Sola Scriptura

I generally feel there is a lot of baggage and red herring issues with many terms. So I may not use them.

But the same issue comes down to this I feel.

Does the Bible contain the complete truth? No. How could it? The Bible never mentions what books are cannon and what books are not. It says test them. Do they flow together. Men , even if they did their best and did a great job, chose what went into the Bible. Some of the books they included mentions other books and stories we don’t have.

The book of Jasher is mentioned. We don’t have it in the Bible though. Jude mentions two things we don’t see in the entire bible except where he mentioned it. We don’t read about Michael and satan arguing over Moses’s body. We also have zero quotes about whatever Enoch said.

So the Bible does not contain all the things.

Secondly it only contradicts if you believe that it’s suppose to be taken as 100% literal. I don’t. So the confliction is not a problem between the various creation accounts because I don’t believe they were meant to actually be taken literally.

But just because I believe that does not mean that anything anyone or faith says that contradicts the world has to be given the same authority.

Take the New Testament. Jesus was not literally scientifically correct about the mustard seed. But maybe to them that was correct and to God it did not matter because it was a parable and not a botany lesson. But some things are lined out in detail.

Take who is qualified to lead a church. The Bible says the elders ( pastors/overseers) are the ones responsible for the congregation. It gives a a list of qualifications. A few of them are that they must be married to one wife with kids ( plural kids). Most priests over catholic congregations are single. Yet they are viewed as the leaders of their congregation. That directly contradicts the requirements of elders.

Secondly, scripture teaches all disciples can baptize other disciples into Christ carrying out the great commission. Priests often teach only they can.

So a oral and written history , such as the catechism, contradicts those things and so I reject it. If something contradicts the actual message ( not necessarily aspects of it such as conflicting creation accounts).

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