The Five Solas: A Pastoral Deep Dive

So it means that scripture alone is the final authority.

You got some jumping on that.

Go for it, Mike.

I

want to point out it's an ablative in Latin.

So it isn't the Bible only.

We do believe in creeds and confessions.

We don't believe that the Bible is sufficient for auto maintenance and so forth.

Yeah.

It's by Scripture alone that we know God's saving will toward sinners.

And so you can't really separate sola scriptura from solo Christo, Christ alone, and grace alone, and faith alone.

They're all bound up together.

It's from Scripture alone that we can know God's saving will toward us in Christ.

And I think it's helpful, Mike, to point out, you're saying it's the final rule of faith and practice.

And that's not the only thing that we have that's authoritative, but it's the final rule.

And I think that being the infallible Word of God, the Scripture, I think that's very helpful for us, even in my tradition, to say, while we might have other authoritative documents, they are helpful insofar as they are summarizing the Scripture.

That's right.

Yeah, that's

right.

And if Scripture weren't clear... then you couldn't have summaries like creeds and confessions.

It's because they derive their secondary authority from the primary authority of Scripture.

It's because they summarize Scripture, not because the church has this power, this authority to... draw up whatever doctrines it

chooses.

It's really important to understand this.

When you talk about the creeds and councils, we think they're very important, but just like everything in the church, it's all subjected to the scriptures.

So it means that scripture alone is the final authority.

You got some jumping on that.

Go for it, Mike.

I

want to point out it's an ablative in Latin.

So it isn't the Bible only.

We do believe in creeds and confessions.

We don't believe that the Bible is sufficient for auto maintenance and so forth.

Yeah.

It's by Scripture alone that we know God's saving will toward sinners.

And so you can't really separate sola scriptura from solo Christo, Christ alone, and grace alone, and faith alone.

They're all bound up together.

It's from Scripture alone that we can know God's saving will toward us in Christ.

And I think it's helpful, Mike, to point out, you're saying it's the final rule of faith and practice.

And that's not the only thing that we have that's authoritative, but it's the final rule.

And I think that being the infallible Word of God, the Scripture, I think that's very helpful for us, even in my tradition, to say, while we might have other authoritative documents, they are helpful insofar as they are summarizing the Scripture.

That's right.

Yeah, that's

right.

And if Scripture weren't clear... then you couldn't have summaries like creeds and confessions.

It's because they derive their secondary authority from the primary authority of Scripture.

It's because they summarize Scripture, not because the church has this power, this authority to... draw up whatever doctrines it

chooses.

It's really important to understand this.

When you talk about the creeds and councils, we think they're very important, but just like everything in the church, it's all subjected to the scriptures.