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Sola Scriptura: Are Protestants Their Own Popes? Responding to John Bergsma and Matt Fradd

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🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Does sola scriptura lead to chaos and individualism? Catholic theologian John Bergsma and Catholic podcaster Matt Fradd claim that rejecting the magisterium leaves Protestants without interpretive authority. Michael Horton, Bob Hiller, Walter Strickland, and Justin Holcomb answer this challenge by clarifying the Protestant doctrine of Scripture's sufficiency, clarity, and final authority.

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This critique that he's giving assumes something the reformers never promised. theology together.

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This critique that he's giving assumes something the reformers never promised, that solar scripture would eliminate interpretive error or disagreement. The difference between

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the Protestant and Roman Catholic views here is not whether interpretation has some

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difficulties. It's whether we should solve that difficulty by

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adding an infallible magisterium. Right. And if you do that, the question simply shifts,

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who interprets the magisterium? And history shows that Rome 2 has some deep divisions on Vatican

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2, liturgical theology, even justification, which we've already hinted to, that authoritative

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structures can't prevent confusion when humans are involved, not because there's something wrong

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with the text, but because we have to interpret the text, and we are fallible and fallen, and

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