March 13, 2012 – 2 Timothy 2

Yet another passage that leaves sola scriptura without an answer. Verse 2 “what you heard from me through many witnesses entrust to faithful people”. What Timothy hears (not reads) he is to entrust to others so that they can grow in their faith. Timothy is to pass on teachings that are oral and tradition, not just what is written in a few letters or Gospels, which he may not have even had copies of. Early Christians would not have understood sola scriptura at all.

Verse 5 – “an athlete cannot receive the winner’s crown except by competing according to the rules.” This whole notion that you can get to Heaven by being a good person or living a good life is relativism at its most dangerous. It simply is not true. You must follow the rules laid down for us and those rules go well beyond being a “good” person.

Verse 25 talks about those that have deviated from God’s path and the hope that they will repent and it will lead them back “knowledge of the truth”. There is only one truth and we are called to follow that truth. Any other path that leads us away is “the devil’s snare, where they are entrapped by him, for his will.” Verse 26. Ask yourselves again about what Truth means, can there be contradiction, how are we to know truth and can the Truth be given to us without some authority established by God.