Sola Scriptura In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Then, there is the sola scriptura non-application to this problem. This would consist of one going to the Bible as all sufficient. In this case, there is no way to determine when a woman is exercising “authority over a man.” The second issue is defining when and where “in the churches” occurs. The words used in this text can be defined and redefined, but the end result is that the Word is not sufficient to answer these questions that are in addition to the scripture. There is a different application that has been popular in many conservative Protestant circles. The woman is not to take a “public part in the service.” The idea behind this is that only this public service is included in these restrictions. The problem in Lipscomb’s estimation is that Christians limit too much of their worshipful activities to a public arena. He suggests that women are allowed to do all of these things in the private sector, outside of the service. This does not relieve the issue of singing. It creates many of the same problems that one had from the other approaches in that women need to be learning at home. If a woman is not supposed to …show more content…
He concludes that one cannot use his or her logic to reason the meaning of scripture and that is a delusion that people use to deceive others. He makes it clear that if anything is not directly gleaned from the Bible it is adding to the Bible. As great a theologian as Music is, he seemed to miss the point that he wrote a commentary on how to properly apply the scripture in different settings. This seems like a contradictory position for a person to hold. If the Bible is the only source of authority, it would contain a phrase to that extent. If the Bible is the only authority and one must glean all things from scripture, he wasted pages adding information to the

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