So with that we're going to get started.

Always like to start with my presuppositions.

Number one, I come from the position of solo scriptor

that the Bible is the inherent word of God

and the only inherent source of truth and doctrine regarding the one true God.

This is something we'll be talking about today in, you know, not naming it solo script tour, but talking

about the authority of scripture today. Sola Gratia, but talking about the authority of scripture today.

Sola Gratia, we were saved by Grace alone, Sola Fide, through faith alone.

Solas Christus, we are saved through Christ's works alone, and the class is interactive. You can type questions and I do really

look forward to seeing them. All right today's topic for our webinar is

biblical authority Constitution or library now the reason I

ask this question is because of Brian McLaren's new book that's kind of the

dichotomy that he's set up so the occasion the need for this webinar is Brian McLaren's new

book a new kind of Christianity and this book itself is a fallout assault

against biblical Christianity and the historic Orthodox

Christian met a narrative if you would.

And so the authority question is one of these things that needs to be addressed and answered in light of the challenges that Brian McLaren has posed and raised in his new book.

By the way, refuting McLaren is not difficult if, you know the Bible, it's actually that simple.

You understand basic church history, It does help to know church

history. We'll talk, we'll be throwing in some church father quotes today but I'm

going to be the as it turned out as I was developing the webinar we're going to focus more on

scripture than on the church fathers although some nice little tidbits

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