1 Where is Sola Scriptura in the Bible?
The scriptures were written by people who were very close to the spiritual events they were describing. By what rationale can we supersede the words of the authors of the NT?
2 Where are your bishops and deacons that were in the original church?
Don't understand this question. Churches have pastors, elders and deacons.
For that matter, where are popes in the New Testament?
3 If Christ commands to eat his flesh and blood, how do you do this without transubstantiation?
Just as manna gave the Israelites life, so Jesus gives us life spiritually and physically.
This is the underlying reality, which Communion conveys symbolically.
4 How can you claim to have true faith when "faith without works is dead"?
Obviously your beliefs result in actions, which show what you really believe more than what you say you believe.
5 Why do you not call Mary blessed as Luke 1:48 say you must?
Actually, none of the translations I see express this as something compulsory.
Watch this: in a few questions he is going to ask about women preachers.
6 Do you confess your sins to another? (James 5:16)
7 Where in scripture are women allowed to teach or preach?
8 (a question about unleavened bread and grape juice)
9 (no question 9)
10 and 11 (a question about the deuterocannonical books)
Basically these books were regarded only as a historical supplement and were canonized because they give justification to doctrines such as purgatory. Protestants stopped including them because they had insufficient interest in studying them compared to the extra cost an bulk of the Bible they preferred. The same principle as just buying a NT.
12 If Jesus' flesh is only shared with us symbolically then the sacrifice is symbolic and there is no real salvation (only a symbolic one).
Jesus gives us life, just as food gives us life.
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