Is claiming the bible as the only source of christian truth unbiblical.?

Question

It would appear so.

Truth comes through

Bible
Read through the lens of church tradition
And the holy spirit.

If you take any of them away you are left with untruth,

Answer 1

good point ...

Answer 2

I don't know if I would say that taking the Bible as the source of Christian truth is unbiblical...

If read through church tradition, then yes, it is unbiblical as it involves someone else's interpretation of what it means.

I believe that only God can guide us in our quest for truth...and the only way for us to be certain of the truth is to have a personal and ongoing relationship with Him so that we have had the opportunity to recognize His voice....rather than our own.

If ten people read any passage from almost any book, you will get ten different perspectives on what is meant by it and how important or unimportant the information is to us. This includes any item that we read....not just religious text. Our viewpoint will always be somewhat skewed by our own experiences and our own personalities.That is a fact of life. Add to that the influences of family and friends and the traditions of the country and community from which we come and you have a clear recipe for untruth...or at least misunderstanding.

My advice: Seek God first...and he will lead you to his truth. God Bless and have a good evening.

Answer 3

The Bible is the Word of God. Church tradition, though important, is not divinely inspired. The Holy Spirit should be capitalized because He is God. He definitely helps, but you have to remember that a lot of cults have formed because the "Holy Spirit" revealed to them that Jesus was a created being, or something stupid like that. Some church traditions have to be kept so that you don't form your own cult (like the Trinity, deity of Christ, virgin birth, sin, etc.) but they are not infallible. We wouldn't have the New Testament without "regula fidei" however, which means "the rule of faith." That was one of the qualifiers for canonization into the New Testament, so that shows us that church tradition needs to be considered when searching for Christian truth. And of course, you must keep the Bible in context, so that you don't get something that the author didn't want you to get out of it. Whatever author it was, he or she was writing to a specific audience and they had a specific way of interpreting the passage. Some passages you may never understand, but if you want to learn from the ones you can understand, you must first seek to understand the passages as the intended audience did before you can apply it to your own life. Otherwise you get a wrong interpretation. The Bible is always the source of truth. To understand it, however, you may have to have church tradition. You always need the Holy Spirit to reveal things to you. He testifies that the gospel message is true and tells of Jesus Christ to our hearts.

Answer 4

Take everything else away, but leave the Holy Spirit. That is the only truth you need. That is what Jesus taught. It's the only thing anyone needs, no matter what faith or non-faith. It is the same for all. It is the key for understanding the truth in the Bible. Churches want you to belive that they give it to you, but blashemy of the Holy Spirit is the only thing that will not be forgiven, ever! (No problem if you doubt God or Jesus , no problem at all, you will be forgiven.)

It is so wrong to make you pay for something that God gave to you at birth. Which sin is that?!!!

Answer 5

Truth can come through many sources including books, acquaintances, life's experiences, nature, etc. The thing we have to keep in mind is how do we judge if these things are the truth or not. That is where the bible becomes the last word on defining what is truth.

Isa 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Answer 6

Before I converted the Catholicism, I didn’t know about, much less understand, the Magesterium of the Church and Her Tradition. It wasn’t until I went through RCIA that I learned how we need the Church for a correct interpretation of scripture. Without Her, we are left to ourselves, to personal interpretation, which leaves the defining of doctrine open to anything, and we already see the effects of this with 500 hundred years of Protestantism.

Answer 7

You are correct. Not all Jesus taught and preached was written down. As stated in the bible

John 20:30-31
Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

Jesus preached and taught orally to the Apostles, just as they taught orally to the Jewish and the Gentiles. The only "scripture" there was was the Old Testament. Sacred Tradition is what Jesus and the Apostles taught orally

Answer 8

Yes. Even in the OT, the Law was always mediated by the Prophets. And ANY book can be twisted without a proper framework for viewing. That's why Atheists and Agnostics have so much trouble believing it.

Answer 9

The "lens of church tradition" is badly cracked! It need to be repaired... Just as Jesus came to do with the Jewish traditions of his day.

Answer 10

No it is not unbiblical.

As Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever.

2 Timothy 3:16 explains it all.....

16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

17so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.

Answer 11

Depends on the church traditions... if they werent done by the first churches (the Bible ones) then there is no reason to do them now.