::See article with quotations from Martin Luther, [https://thesearewritten.blogspot.com/2007/07/luther-on-sola-scriptura.html '''But These Are Written – Luther on Sola Scriptura''' (thesearewritten.blogspot.com)]—“I do not read the scholastics blindfolded, as they do, but ponder them. The apostle told us to prove all things, and hold to that which is good. ...and when, even among the scholastics, there are as many sects as there are heads, or rather every single head daily builds up a new system of divinity, why should I not have the same liberty?”
::See selected texts of [[Martin Luther]]'s [https://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2007/11/luther-sola-scriptura-had-devastating.html "'''Letter to the Christians of Antwerp'''" 1525 (luth. werke,tom. ii. p. 62,sqq)—''from the blog'' '''Beggars All: Reformation & Apologetics – Luther: Sola Scriptura Had a "Devastating Effect"?''', James Swan (beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com)].
:Many persons mistakenly [[Misrepresentation|misrepresent]] the meaning of ''sola scriptura'' as fundamentally ''the plain and simple interpretation of the Bible'', based solely on an [[Ignorance|ignorant]], uniformed personal [[intuition]] of individual private judgment, guided only by the principle of ''[[sola spiritu]]'', utterly divorced from the informed insights of scholarship, as if an informed and extensively educated understanding of the Bible is [[ipso facto]] the product of corrupt thinking, influenced by the liberalist doubts of [[Agnosticism|agnostic]] scholars and doctrines of devils (1 Timothy 4:1-2). <br>Many troubling questions raised by ordinary Christian believers about the meaning of passages in the Bible have been answered by informed biblical scholars and knowledgeable commentators who studiously avoid engaging in doctrinal [[polemic]], so that their readers can make informed decisions for their lives based on the actual meaning of the sacred scriptures, and be able to give an answer to those who ask a reason for their hope in Christ. Many persons have changed denominations because of their increased knowledge of what the Bible actually teaches. Erroneous doctrines and heresies, based on incomplete or distorted interpretations of the Bible, have been exposed as the product of ignorance and the opinions of unstable persons, by fully informed and truly devout Christian scholars (2 Peter 3; 1 John 2:18-29). <br>See [[Historical-critical method (Higher criticism)]], [[Hermeneutics]], [[Cafeteria Christianity]], [[Heresy]], [[Cult]] and [[Christian In Name Only]]; also [https://www.catholicconvert.com/resources/writings/steve-rays/ Defenders of the Catholic Faith - Steve Ray' Writings].
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