Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: brandy@mimsy.umd.edu (Brandy R. Provine) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: _Sola Scriptura_ does not apply to everything Message-ID: Date: 1 Jan 90 15:41:57 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 40 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In the midst of a free will discussion, Dave Mielke writes some pointless insults for any who disagree with him, and he also writes this: > >Regardless of all the various self-gratifying concepts that people invent, >I, for one, refuse to believe anything unless God Himself has declared it >to be true within the Scriptures. Many people believe that headaches can cause short-tempered behaviour, and also that taking an aspirin will relieve that condition, enabling more harmony with those around us. (This is not a claim that _no_ antisocial behavior is due to sin, but only that _some_ interpersonal friction is aggravated by headaches, and that relieving the headache will prevent some nastiness.) Neither of these rather common beliefs, however, has support from the Bible. Do you claim that these beliefs are `self-gratifying concepts'? Since you have declared that you refuse to believe anything which is not declared in the Scriptures, do you deny that headaches can affect one's behaviour? Do you oppose taking of aspirin for headaches? Or do you have Bible verses which support these ideas? If you do oppose taking of aspirin in general, are you against it even if it causes people to get along better by helping relieve headaches? And doesn't it seem strange to you that you are directly opposed to an action which can prevent needless hostilities? (I recognise that Dave didn't mean his comment literally, and was merely being inaccurate, because he believes many things which are not in the Bible (he apparently believes that the terminal he works on is hooked to a computer, eg). This particular example, however, is one wherein the standard solution helps prevent sinful behaviour and is not in the Bible.) brandy@cs.umd.edu Brandy R. Provine ...uunet!mimsy!brandy "Anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about." -- CS Lewis