Hello everybody, so I titled this video All Bible or No Bible and the title might be a
bit confusing because you can interpret it in two different ways but really I'm talking
about both in this video.
So the purpose of this video is to address the so-called Christians out there who there
are many in the world who are like this who claim to believe the Word of God yet they
rely on tradition and experience over what the Bible actually says.
So when I say all Bible I mean using the Bible only for doctrine and practices and not traditions
and experiences which often they use to try to trump the Bible.
Now as a result of people's use of tradition and experience in other scriptures instead
of relying solely on the Word of God, the Bible, they tend to reject certain portions
of scripture.
There's honestly some people out there who will call themselves Christians who simply
don't believe what portions of the Bible says or they ignore these portions because it simply
doesn't fit in with their false doctrine.
So the purpose of this video is to explain why this is completely inconsistent.
If you claim to believe the Bible you either use the entire Bible and use it alone for
your doctrine or you shouldn't use it at all.
A true Christian is one who believes that this book, the Bible, is the Word of God without
error.
There's no in between.
People who claim, well I believe certain parts of the Bible but not others, I only believe
this book or this book or this section or this section, they do not really believe the
Bible.
People who claim I believe the Bible but I think the human tradition is equal to or greater
than the scriptures do not really believe the Bible.
And of course I'm going to explain why using the Bible and several examples of people who
do this, why they reject portions of the Bible and different groups that do this and there's
probably two or three that I'm going to talk about in this video.
There's the Jews for example who follow the Judaic religion.
The Judais claim to believe the Old Testament but of course since they are Jews and not
Christians they reject the New Testament.
They don't believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah or the Son of God and they don't believe
that any of the books from Matthew to Revelation are inspired scripture.
And many Christians, especially Zionist Christians out there who treat the Jews as if they're
special despite being blasphemers of Christ and people who deny the Messiah, 1 John 2
22 says, who is a liar but he that denieth the Jesus of the Christ.
He is antichrist that denieth the Father and the Son.
And yet despite this many Christians will even say that Judaism is the religion of the
Old Testament and that Jews still believe the Hebrew Bible despite this verse in the New
Testament saying that they reject the Father and the Son.
But that is once again untrue the Christian Zionist interpretation of what Judaism is.
Judaism is a religion which puts traditions above the Bible and those traditions are written down
in the form of the Talmud which is made up of the Mishnah which is the written form of what's
called the oral Torah and the Gemara which is rabbinic commentaries on the oral Torah.
The customs of the Jews are not found in the Bible such as the 39 specific things which you
don't do on the Sabbath, the requirement of a priestly blessing on food for it to be kosher,
these are from the Mishnah, these are not from the Torah, the five books of Moses.
Now the actual Torah contained in the law of Moses from Genesis to Deuteronomy it says in
Deuteronomy 4 2 to not add or to subtract to the law.
Now the Jews claim that they're not adding to the law because the oral Torah is something
supposedly given to Moses by God and it was passed down by tradition over thousands of years.
However there's literally zero evidence of the existence of these rabbinical traditions and the
oral Torah prior to the Second Temple period.
It's not even mentioned in the actual Torah or in the Hebrew Old Testament at all.
It's just a tradition which developed after the exile from Babylon after they returned back to
the land.
So simply put the oral Torah and the commentaries on the Torah which govern the practices of the
Jewish religion are based on human tradition and not on the Word of God.
They're disobeying the commandment of God which says not to add or subtract to his word by adding
to his word.
Not only that the Jews do not believe much of the Old Testament anyway.
Jesus said in John chapter 5 verse 46 to 47 for had he believed Moses you would have believed
me for he wrote of me but if you believe not his writings how should you believe my words.
So you Christians out there who think that the Jews are still believers in God's Word but
they just reject the latter part of it but they're still believers in the Old Testament religion.
That's wrong according to Christ.
According to Christ if they had believed Moses they would have believed him.
So this implies that the Jews who reject Christ and reject the New Testament despite claiming
a lot of the time to follow the Old Testament do not really believe in Moses.
Again they reject part of Scripture because they don't believe it at all.
All Bible or no Bible.
That's why I called the video this.
Then there's also the Roman Catholics.
That's another false religion out there which does a very similar thing.
They claim to believe that the Bible is God's Word but they also lift up tradition higher than that.
Now the Catechism of the Catholic Church which outlines Catholic doctrine says in section 92
as a result the church to whom the transmission and interpretation of revelations is entrusted
does not derive for certainty above about all revealed truths from the Holy Scriptures alone.
Both Scripture and tradition must be accepted and honored with equal sentiments of devotion and
reverence.
So this is evident from Roman Catholicism that they hold these two things to be equal.
At least they claim that they're equal.
However in the end it always ends up pushing tradition above the words of God.
When Scripture disagrees with their tradition they'll follow the tradition over what the Bible
says or they'll twist Scriptures in order to agree with their traditions.
Now let me explain why this position is inconsistent as well.
The Bible says this.
2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 16 to 17.
Here it says all Scripture but not all tradition.
Now Scripture it says is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine.
So we get our doctrine or what we believe from Scripture for reproof so we can use
Scripture to teach people that they are sinners and to rebuke the wicked.
For correction we use Scripture to get people on the right path towards serving God.
For instruction and righteousness we use Scripture to teach people what's right and what's wrong.
Verse 17 is key here.
It says it starts with the word that showing that as a result of these things the man of God may be
perfect thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Now I love when the Bible used absolutes because it shows you here what it's talking about.
It says that the Scripture can make the man of God perfect and that it thoroughly meaning
completely furnishes to all not some good works.
Therefore why is there need for a tradition if it's the Scriptures which are able to make
us perfect and to furnish us unto all good works?
All the good works that we do are taught to us by the Scriptures so all the traditions
of the Roman Catholic Church are useless according to the Bible if it's not based
on what the Scripture says.
In the end the Roman Catholic Church ends up exalting tradition above the Bible and hold
on to things despite being forbidden in the Scriptures.
For example, Jesus commanded to call no man father in a religious context yet they call
all their priests father including the Bishop of Rome who they call Pope.
That comes from the Italian word for father, papa.
Now Jesus said to not make vain repetitions in prayer yet they repeat their Hail Marys
and their Our Father prayers constantly in their churches.
Then their priests don't marry but the Bible says specifically that being married is a
requirement for being a bishop and a deacon in 1 Timothy chapter 3.
So the word tradition is only used in a positive context once in the Bible and that's in 2
Thessalonians.
It specifies what it means saying which ye have been taught whether by word or our epistle.
So the word tradition means something which is handed down.
Obviously Paul is not sanctioned in keeping every single thing which is handed down to
you but literally says that these are things which have been taught to the Thessalonians
through what the Bible says.
The tradition which we should be holding on to are the teachings of the New Testament,
the Bible that has been passed down to us.
Not mankind's doctrines which contradict Scripture.
So this is why I say again all Bible or no Bible.
Because it's funny how some people will say that the Holy Scriptures are inspired by God.
You know the Roman Catholics said that in their catechism of the Catholic Church.
They'll say yeah the Scriptures are inspired but then the Holy Scriptures also say that
the Holy Scriptures are all you need and you don't need tradition.
But they don't believe that.
So they believe that this is right and yet they don't believe what it says about itself.
They don't believe what the Holy Scriptures say about the Holy Scriptures and about how
you only need the Holy Scriptures.
If you try to show them what the Bible says they'll try to find the middle ground between
their traditions instead of just going with what the Bible says even though it's described
as a perfect word of God.
So as Christians we should hold to the entirety of the Bible because all Scripture is given
by inspiration of God.
But furthermore we should rely on the Bible alone for our doctrine.
There's no point of relying on other Scripture's tradition or experience.
In 2 Peter chapter 1 it's written that the written word of Scripture is a more sure word
of prophecy even than the direct voice of God which spake at the mount of Transfiguration.
So we have a reliable word of God and that's why we as Christians we should use Holy Scripture
alone and all Scripture.
If you don't believe it you just don't believe it at all.
Jesus said he that is of God heareth God's words he therefore heareth them not because
you're not of God.
Simply put those who pick and choose what to believe and what to reject are not of God.
If you find God's words and you say well I don't believe that I don't want to believe
that then you're not of God.
You are not born again you're not born of God you're not a Christian.
So thank you everybody for watching that's it for this video and God bless you and goodbye.