Welcome back to Seamus Popperi. I'm Joe Heschmire. And today I want to explore seven Bible verses that I've heard Protestants use to support the idea of Soliscriptora or the Bible alone.

And then why I don't think any of them actually work if you read them in their proper biblical context.

Now, before I go any further, I should really quickly clarify what do we mean by Seliscriptor?

Because I know different Protestants use this term in different ways,

and particularly nowadays, many modern Protestants will try to narrow the idea down

to something a little easier to defend.

So, for example, Dr. Gavin Ortland says,

Soliscriptura does not require that every doctrine must be explicitly taught in Scripture. Even the strongest

articulations of the related doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture allow for doctrines to be

deduced from Scripture by good and necessary consequence. Solar Scriptura is often caricatured

on those points and many others, but stated responsibly, it's a very modest

and reasonable claim. It simply means that popes, councils, and other post-apostolic organs

of the church are fallible. Now, I don't know who is caricaturing Soliscriptura to say everything

has to be explicit in Scripture, but in any case, historically, Soliscriptora meant much more than what Dr. Ortland just defined.

As Jimmy Aiken points out in his article, the shifting definition of Soliscriptura,

the doctrine historically meant not only that the church may err,

but also, and this is the really important part of the positive case,

that all doctrine must come

from scripture alone, or at least all necessary or saving doctrine. As Dr. Matthew Barrett of

Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary puts it, Soliscriptora also means that scripture alone is our

sufficient authority. This isn't just, in other words, a related doctrine, as Dr.

Ortland says, it's part of the doctrine of Soliscriptura. Not only is the Bible our supreme

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