“Sola scriptura” means to assert the sole authority of Christ over His church, to the exclusion of all other powers and authorities. “Christ rules His Church through His word.” This means for the Reformed that Christ rules through the Bible understood as God-given rules and regulations—Law....The Holy Scriptures supply us today with the only reliable, divinely guaranteed access to the apostolic-prophetic foundation of the church. To bind Christian consciences to other and further authorities, beyond what God himself has given in His written Word, the Scriptures, is insolence and sacrilege.
“Sola scriptura” opposes not tradition but the wrong use of tradition. Orthodox creeds and confessions do not compete with, but implement the Sola Scriptura, the properly understood Scripture! “Sola scriptura” demands reason as servant, but rejects reason as judge or master over Scripture. “Sola scriptura” necessarily presupposes a qualitative distinction between “divine and human writings” such that Scripture is fully and directly God’s Word (verbal or plenary inspiration).
Without strict inerrancy, rejected by historical criticism, all talk about “inspiration” is an empty sham.
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“Orthodox creeds and confessions do not compete with, but implement the Sola Scriptura, the properly understood Scripture! See Formula of Concord, Rule and Norm, etc.”
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