29) If the early Church
believed in sola Scriptura, why do the creeds of the early Church always say
“we believe in the Holy Catholic Church,” and not “we believe in Holy
Scripture”?
Irrelevant, the creeds are not saying "believe in the Holy Catholic
Church and not Holy scripture," therefore it is incompetent, a lie
to say they mean that.
105 The Communion of Saints
Niceta of Remesiana, De Symbolo, 10, ed. A. E. Burn, pp. 48f.
After confessing the blessed Trinity, thou goest on
to profess that thou believest in the Holy
Catholic Church. What else is the Church than the congregation of all
saints? From the beginning of the world, be it patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, prophets, aposdes, martyrs, or all other just
men, who have been, are, or shall be, are one Church because they are
sanctified by one faith and life, sealed by one Spirit, made one body; of which
body the head is held to be Christ, as indeed it is written. I go further. Even
angels, virtues, and powers supernal are united in this one Church; for the
Apostle teaches that in Christ all things are reconciled, whether things on
earth or things in heaven. So in this one Church thou believest
that thou art to attain the Communion of Saints. Thou must know that
this one Church is ordered throughout the whole world and to its communion thou
oughtest firmly to adhere. There are, indeed, other
pseudo-churches, but thou hast nothing in common with them; as, for instance,
churches of Manichaeans, Montanists,
Marcionites, and other heretics or schismatics. For they have ceased to be holy Churches,
inasmuch as they have been deceived by doctrines of demons, and both believe
and do otherwise than is required by the commands of Christ the Lord and the
traditions of the Apostles. (Kidd, Documents, II, p.
93.)
Niceta (fl. 380–405) was a contemporary and
correspondent of Ambrose and a friend of Paulinus of
Nola. The document illustrates Western homiletic preaching at this time.- Creeds, councils, and controversies : Documents
illustrative of the history of the church A.D. 337-461. 1966. "Based
upon the collection edited by the late B. J. Kidd."; "Intended to be
a successor to vol. II of the late B. J. Kidd's Documents, published in
1923." (J. Stevenson & B. J. Kidd, Ed.)
(140). New York: Seabury Press.
KJV 1 John 2:21 I have not
written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and
that no lie is of the truth.
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The times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth
all men every where to repent:
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the
door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.-kjv