What do we mean by the phrase Sola Scriptura?

What does it mean that the Bible is our authority for life today?

How does that fit in a culture that emphasizes, quote, my truth?

We'll discuss these questions and more with our guest today, Dr. Ben Wetherington,

ran his new book, Sola Scriptura, Scripture's final authority in the modern world.

I'm your host, Scott Ray.

And I'm your co-host, Sean McAll.

This is Think Piblically from TABETH School of Theology at Biola University.

Ben, so happy to have you with us.

Appreciate your book, and looking forward to the conversation.

My pleasure.

Good to be with you.

I have to admit, when I first read the title and subtitle without looking at any of the book proper,

I thought to myself, do we really need another book on this subject?

So why do we need another one?

What prompted you to write this one, and what makes this book different from all the other ones

that have been written on the authority of the Bible in the modern world?

Well, to start with, you know, there has been an assumption, especially in the evangelical

Protestant community that the orbit we tend to be in, that the idea of Soloscriptura came out of the Reformation and the

post-Reformation. And that's absolutely false. In fact, that phrase was being thrown around long

before Luther or anybody else thought about using it. And it was used by Catholic priests who were ticked off with the Pope.

They used it because the Pope increasingly over the Middle Ages was claiming he was the

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