Today's debate is concerning solar scriptura. The format is 20-minute openings, 15-minute

rebuttals. We go cross-examination to be a total of 30 minutes, both parties, you get 15 minutes

each to ask questions. 20-minute, with a 20-minute Q&A, and then the closing will be a 7-minute

closing after the Q&A. So that's your prompt you guys to get your questions in early, all right? Make sure you get the NDA cards. You might want to grab them now, and so you can write your questions down while you're listening to the debate. And we're going to have, after the Q&A, seven-minute closings. Good to go. Anthony, you're up for your 20-minute opening. Good evening.

I want to begin by giving all praise and thanks to the Lord Jesus Christ who loved me and gave

himself for me. I also want to thank Marlon for organizing this event, Trent, for engaging me

on this topic, and all of you for giving us

your ear this evening. The word of God is and always has been an existential threat to Satan's

kingdom. And so also to any individual or group that seeks to seat itself in the place of God and bind the

consciences of men with doctrines and duties that cannot be proven to come from God.

Economic historian Jacob Rubin has written that there is, quote, a very strong connection

between towns that adopted the Reformation and those that had a

printing press, which is just to say those towns that had a copy of the Bible. As an heir of the

Reformation, the position I'll be defending in this debate is that found in the classic creeds

and confessions of the

Reformation, summarized as follows. Scripture, as the word of the self-contained triune God,

is his self-authenticating, inspired, revelatory word, which is, as such, inherent, sufficient,

and clear so that it may, as by divine design,

it was intended to, function as the ultimate or final Norman regulator of all Christian faith and

practice. Well, first then, scripture is self-authenticating. Cardinal Stanislaus Hoseus,

a member of the body that produced the decrees

and anathema-filled canons of the Council of Trent, not Trent's YouTube page, and so a representative

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