Reformation Sola Christos

REFORMATION SOLA CHRISTOS



Reformation Sola Christos

Introduction

Solo Christo or Solus Christos ("Christ alone" or "only through Christ")

Solus Christos teaches that Jesus Christ is the only mediator between God and man, and there is no salvation through anyone else. While rejecting any other mediator between God and man, classical Lutheranism continues to honor the memory of the Virgin Mary and other saint's copies. (Sharpe, 1983)

In principle there is nothing to oppose to the essential doctrine of the Christian faith by which we know the person and figure of Christ alone, the center of our faith and our life. Undoubtedly, there is no Christianity without Christ. However, it appears that in the Bible, with the crystal clear reality: when Christ became incarnate and has founded his Church, you cannot separate reality from the reality of Christ Church. The Church is the Body of Christ (Col 1.18). The Church is its fullness (Eph 1.23). Persecute the Church is to persecute Christ (Acts 9.1 to 6) And if the thing was not sufficiently clear, we see that the relationship between Christ and the Church is a mystery to which St. Paul compares with the mystery of the union men and women (Eph 5.31 to 32).

Biblical Evaluation

However, when we examine what the Bible says about the Church, we see the following:

Christ made it very clear that Christian unity should be similar to the unity of Him with the Father and of achievement of this unit would depend on the world to think.

- The Church had a well-defined hierarchy: the apostles, including Peter the first, then the bishops and elders (priests).

- The church adopted a system to solve the doctrinal problems that can be called to reconcile, as seen in Acts 15, with the particularity that Peter was the one who settled the discussions were taking place at the first council. Moreover, the provisions of Acts 15 were mandatory for the whole Church.

- The apostles were sharp against those who cause division. Starting with Paul, who had to deal first with the "denominational" in Corinth (1 Cor 1.10 to 13). And he gave an order Tito clear about what he had to do with causing division. Had to admonish them first and throw them outside the church then because they had perverted (Tit 3:10-11). In Jude 19 is placed at the same level as those who cause divisions to sensuous, and both are said to not have the Spirit. And we say loud and clear, the apostle John shows in 1 John 2.18-19 than those who leave the Church are antichrists, although some would interpret the text of a milder form.

Now, one may ask, what does this have to do with Protestantism and Christ alone? Moreover, the Protestant who understands this reality, if honest, must necessarily cease to be Protestant, unless you want serious sin before God.

Protestantism is the denial of Christ from the time in practice denies the existence of a single Church of Christ, one ...