The Apostle Paul makes the claim that all scripture is God-breathe.

The point that we have here that Paul is making is this astonishing claim when he says

that all of these writings, all of the graphite, are given by divine inspiration.

That is an astonishing claim, especially in a society that rejects the supernatural.

Critics claim there's no way to verify that scientifically.

So what do we mean when we say that all scripture is from God?

Then it's absolutely trustworthy and without error.

But we need to form a firm foundation of our doctrine of the Bible.

And R.C. Sproul helps us do just that today on renewing your mind.

The time of the 16th century reformation, of course, the historians look back and say that the

chief debate, the crucial issue that provoked that controversy, which is called the material cause

of the reformation, was the doctrine of justification by faith alone.

But lurking behind the scenes and slightly under the present view was another issue that was

very, very important. And that was the question of authority.

When Luther was engaged in debate with the leaders of the church over the doctrine of justification,

and he had his disputations with Pagetan and with Eck, with the meetings at Leipzig and at Augsburg,

Luther was maneuvered into position where he had to confess publicly that his views did not agree

with previous statements that the church had made in church council, and also that his views

didn't agree with certain statements that had been issued by former popes of the church.

Now that provoked quite a crisis for Luther because the question was how dare you question the

authority of the church or the authority of the pope? And Luther finally at the died of

warmsat, unless I'm convinced by sacred scripture or by evident reason, I can't recant for my

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