So these are the people who were in the temple when Jesus braided his own whip and went in there and started flipping tables and chasing them out

outAbsolutely.

It's the same spirit, it's the same mindset.

And, you know, the Bible says there's nothing new under the sun.

And so obviously we have new technologies, and obviously learning and information can sometimes, uh, advance.

But in general, life situations, life circumstances, and belief systems, they're virtually all the same, and they go back every generation.

You have people that deny Christ, you have people that believe in Christ.

Yeah

Thank you so much for coming out to Modern Day Debate, and the floor is all yours.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

I'm going to share my screen real quick.

And you can even go to our website, and you can see this opening about Sola Scriptura.

In the debate tonight, I am defending the position of Sola Scriptura, so I'm gonna do my best to try and define our terms for this discussion and point out reasons why I believe in Sola Scriptura.

The idea of Sola Scriptura is that scripture alone is the infallible rule of faith and practice.

It does not mean that it rejects tradition, rejects churches, rejects church leaders.

You got up to five minutes there for your closing thoughts before we get into that Q&A.

The floor is all yours.

Thank you so much, James, for allowing me to be on the show and to represent the Bible, the Word of God.

And I want to start with a verse in Colossians chapter 1, verse number 18.

The Bible says about Christ that he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

Really, this debate is around authority and understanding that Christ is the final authority.

If Christ is the head of the church, then we ought to obey Christ and appeal to Christ.

Since Christ is not physically with us on earth, he has left us obviously his word and we can reference his word.

Pastor Jonathan, if you'd like to go first.