Paul and Silas Preach to the Bareans - Acts

Today's devotional is taken from Acts 17:10-15 Paul and Silas in Thessalonica and Barea. The Bareans were devout students of the Scriptures who taught us two important things. First, the entire Old Testament is filled with prophecies of Jesus. Secondly, they teach us that we are to compare what we are taught from the Scriptures with the Scriptures themselves. Join us as we study and learn from their example today.

[@DD-bx8rb]

I am glad when Protestants mention the Bereans. The fact that the Bereans searched the Scriptures (OT) is NOT a proof-text for their Bible-alone practice, and is instead the opposite. Yes certainly, the Bereans searched the Scriptures (a very worthy practice indeed!). But so did the Thessalonians. But look what the Bereans did NEXT. Unlike the Thessalonians who stuck to their "Bible-alone", the Bereans did the OPPOSITE to "Bible-alone". They accepted the Oral teaching of the Church through St Paul IN ADDITION to their Bible, they got baptized, and they submitted to the Church as their Final Authority. The Bereans were the Catholics, because their authority-paradigm was the Catholic paradigm: Written Tradition(Scripture), Oral Tradition, and Church as Final Authority.