Church History Proves the Necessity of Sola Scriptura

Alpha and Omega Ministries

Dr. James White

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

After some comments on a variety of topics at the top of the program, we dove deep into the following citation from Basil the Great, "because the honor paid to the image passes on to the prototype." We looked at the original context and meaning, and then how it was plucked out of that context and used by John of Damascus, and how that then became central to the arguments of the iconophiles at Nicea II, and hence became the basis of "infallible dogma" for both Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. Not an entertaining program, to be sure, but hopefully a helpful one. Tomorrow we will be doing a Zoom call "open phones" program, so join us then!

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0:00.0	I'm I'm Okay, so welcome to the dividing line. My name's James White, and yeah, so
0:35.6	Wes Huff posted the picture that we took last night when I took him back to his hotel.
0:41.5	He had contacted me, oh, when was it?
0:44.8	I don't know, a number of days ago and said, hey, he's going to be in town.
0:47.9	He's going to be doing some recording.
0:50.3	And could we find a time we could get together?
0:53.5	And so I swung by and picked him up at his hotel after he recorded, I think, about three sessions or something like that.
1:04.2	He's doing three today and then two the next day and then flying home, I think.
1:09.9	Anyway, he's doing stuff on scriptural reliability,
1:14.8	and, you know,
1:16.5	we talk about a lot of the same things.
1:19.4	We really do.
1:21.9	But he's just doing a whole lot more international traveling
1:24.5	than I ever did, but certainly do. I don't do it anymore.
1:29.5	So anyways, we ate Mexican and ate chips and salsa and talked about visiting all sorts of
1:36.1	different manuscripts. In fact, in fact, he then gave me one of his facsimiles, and I'm going to be putting it in the background here I told him I would
1:47.8	so here is what he gave me
1:51.6	it's a facsimile of P1
1:55.6	and now my understanding from what he told me
2:00.1	is not only is he, this is in Pennsylvania,
2:06.0	but he spent time with the manuscript and that this is his actual writing,
2:11.9	that he actually copied this onto papyrus.
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