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I am Sykelet, your host, and I'll just say it.

I'll just say it right out to start the hour.

Solar Scriptura doesn't work.

Oh, that's so controversial.

You have strong feelings about that? 8883187-884. But I feel confident in saying it because I have the book right here

in my hand. Soliscriptura doesn't work. 25 practical reasons to reject the doctrine of Bible alone.

Joel S. Peters, the author of this book is our guest.

Joel, thanks for being here with us. I am delighted to be with you. Thanks for having me on the show.

8883187-884. You're willing to talk to anybody about this? Sure. And so what I note is that it says right there

in the subhead 25 practical reasons to reject this doctrine or so-called doctrine of Soliscriptura

or the Bible alone. What does that mean? Why are you giving practical reasons to reject this doctrine?

When I was working on the manuscript for this, I had actually been including, let's say, doctrinal or exegetical reasons getting into the meaning of passages, etc.

And as I continue to work through it, I realize you could very easily

get to a point where you say, all right, I think verse X means this, I think it means that,

and you end up basically playing, let's trump the interpretation. And that leaves too much to just people's particular bias, their viewpoint,

their denominational affiliation, whatever. My sense with these reasons is that, let's just

talk on a very basic level. When you apply this teaching, does it work? Is it practical? Is it logical?

Can we get real mileage out of it? And I think basically the bottom line is on multiple levels.

The answer to those questions is no. Again, 8883187-884. Joel Peters, our guest, is the author of the very new book from

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