March 17, 2012
What constitutes religious authority today:
The Pope or the NT scriptures alone?

This present study concerns the subject of “Religious Authority.”  On March 17, 2012 Mr. Rhett Brotherton came to our church building to affirm, “The Bible, church tradition and Papal decrees all constitute religious authority.”  Mr. Brotherton is an apologist for the Catholic Church as well as a Captain in the police department in Oklahoma City.  He was recommended and endorsed by the presiding priest (Price Oswalt) of St Wenceslaus Catholic Church of Prague, Oklahoma.  Mr. George Battey affirmed, “The New Testament scriptures alone constitute religious authority for today.”  Mr. Battey’s position is sometimes called “sola scriptura” – which is the Latin phrase meaning, “scripture alone.”  Continue reading →