Message from @swampy_maroon

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2017-06-07 15:01:01 UTC  

To love god and to love others

2017-06-07 15:01:10 UTC  

your background is definitely showing extremely much

2017-06-07 15:01:23 UTC  

That is what the entirety of the commands were accordin to christ

2017-06-07 15:01:25 UTC  

and, I don't wanna be petty but capitalize His pronouns and names

2017-06-07 15:01:37 UTC  

Ok, I apologise

2017-06-07 15:01:48 UTC  

I'm reformed man

2017-06-07 15:01:54 UTC  

''to love God and to love others''
this is extremely extremely vague

2017-06-07 15:02:10 UTC  

what does it mean to love?

2017-06-07 15:02:16 UTC  

What are acts of love?

2017-06-07 15:02:26 UTC  

Can an unpleasurable act be out of love?

2017-06-07 15:02:29 UTC  

I'm talking about the greatest commandment man

2017-06-07 15:02:49 UTC  

And that commandment has a meaning

2017-06-07 15:02:53 UTC  

Yes

2017-06-07 15:02:58 UTC  

thing is, many can interpret it many ways

2017-06-07 15:03:04 UTC  

which is why we have Eccumenial Councils

2017-06-07 15:03:34 UTC  

Obviously man, for brevity I am summarising heavily here

2017-06-07 15:03:46 UTC  

That's the thing I despise about sola scriptura

2017-06-07 15:04:08 UTC  

it degenerates and causes schisms in theology everywhere, ultimately making ethics completely relative

2017-06-07 15:04:17 UTC  

Sorry

2017-06-07 15:04:20 UTC  

But how

2017-06-07 15:04:24 UTC  

the denial of a single Truth

2017-06-07 15:04:29 UTC  

Which one

2017-06-07 15:04:33 UTC  

So you're protestant, right?

2017-06-07 15:04:55 UTC  

I'm Reformed

2017-06-07 15:05:02 UTC  

so yeah

2017-06-07 15:05:14 UTC  

I think that man is born into sin

2017-06-07 15:05:22 UTC  

Man is unable to save himself

2017-06-07 15:05:48 UTC  

Jesus incarnated into human history in accordance with God the Father's plan from before time

2017-06-07 15:05:52 UTC  

sola fide

2017-06-07 15:06:13 UTC  

Tell me, how do the Reformed declare an interperation of scripture infallible?

2017-06-07 15:07:01 UTC  

In the reformed camp, the exegetical methodology is to interepret scripture in accordance with what else is said in scripture

2017-06-07 15:07:29 UTC  

So where something is vague, look at in context with what is said before and after it, along with other passages in scripture

2017-06-07 15:07:57 UTC  

But yeah, we also heavily follow the writings of Augustine, and his work on the sovereignty and grace of god

2017-06-07 15:08:02 UTC  

Along with of course Calvin

2017-06-07 15:08:45 UTC  

but what about declaring infallibility?

2017-06-07 15:08:56 UTC  

well scripture is infallible

2017-06-07 15:09:13 UTC  

Scripture is the inspired and authorative word of god

2017-06-07 15:09:25 UTC  

Everyting else is the work of mere men

2017-06-07 15:09:36 UTC  

Some of those dudes have a lot of insight

2017-06-07 15:09:43 UTC  

but they don't stand higher than scripture