We can learn from the councils, we can learn from the traditions, but they can't bind

the conscience, and nor can they create new doctrine.

A peasant, armed with one verse of Scripture, has more authority than a Pope or a church

council who does not have Scripture to back up what they're saying.

In the Book of Acts, we're told that the Bereans were more noble than others.

Why?

Well, because they examined the scriptures to see of what they were being taught was accurate.

Welcome to the Saturday edition of Redoing Your Mind, we continue our study of the Five Solas of the Reformation.

Today, R.C. Sprole helps us understand where we must turn if we want to know what God has

said.

And the answer is the same as it was for the Bereans and as it was for Martin Luther in

the 16th century.

Here's Dr. Sprola.

We're going to continue our study now on the solas of the Reformation with the Sola called Sola Scriptura.

And if you will recall when we started this, we looked at the doctrine of justification

by faith alone, and I mentioned then that church historians often distinguish between

the material cause of the Reformation and the formal cause of the Reformation. The material cause being that which was

front and center, it was the basic stuff or matter about which the dispute was carried on.

But underlying that surface issue was another very serious matter, which had to do with the question

of authority. And so the principle of Soliscriptora became the formal principle of the Reformation,

and it means in simple terms that the

final authority by which the conscience of the Christian is bound is scripture and scripture

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