Does The Bible Teach 'Scripture Alone' (Sola Scriptura)?

Watch this new sermon from Jeff Durbin from Apologia Church on the doctrine of "Sola Scriptura" or "Scripture Alone". Does the Bible teach that the Scriptures should be the sole infallible rule of faith and practice for the church? Did Jesus believe in the principle of Sola Scriptura? Listen and share with someone you love!

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[collinwalker]

If you ever witness to Sikhs... please, please wear a headdress and introduce yourself as Jeff Turbin.

[randatatang]

I'm sick and tired of people (especially catholics) who either don't understand sola scriptura or intentionally caricature this protestant doctrine. Sola scriptura doesn't say the bible is the only authority. I repeat sola scriptura doesn't mean the bible is the only authority. It does means that scripture is the only INERRANT authority. What sola scriptura does is that it helps us to continuously reform any other authorities. We Protestants do respect traditions, creedes, confessions and councils. We just think they're errant and therefore reformable. You all need to just stop misrepresenting this

[JosipM]

Sola scripture is man made doctrine. That is not the Biblical teaching.

[jvlp]

My Personal Opinion (non-biblical opinion) regarding "Sola Scriptura" (Written Scripture Alone)... during the time when the New Covenant Scriptures of God thru Christ Jesus were not written down yet or have not fully completely written down yet... the early Christians of the 1st Cent. A.D., before the 2nd Temple was destroyed by the Roman Empire, their CHRISTIAN FAITH in Christ Jesus thru God's Grace, practiced their FAITH based on VERBAL/ORAL TRADITIONS alone written from the Hearts of the Apostles and Disciples...

But after the 2nd Temple was destroyed in around 70 A.D., more or less 40 years after Christ Jesus ascended back to Heaven with God the Father... God decided to ALLOW only those VERBAL/ORAL TRADITIONS to be written down by God's People guided by the Holy Spirit that have significance, relevance, and importance to the process of SALVATION of mankind...
Those oral/verbal traditions were practiced by the Early Christians in the 1st Cent. A.D. that was not written down was God's DECISION not to practice no more... most especially after the book of revelation was written down by Apostle John at Patmos in around 92 - 96 A.D.

Apostle John said (Rev. 22:18-19/paraphrase)... "I testified and warned anyone who hears the Prophecy of this SCROLL (singular/Book/Bible): if anyone ADDS any WORDS to them, God will add to that person the PLaGUES (tribulation/troubles) written in this scroll (Book)... And anyone who SUBTRACT (takes away) any WORDS of the Prophecy from this scroll (Book), God will take away to that person any share from the Tree of Life and in the Holy City, which are described in this scroll (Book)."... Amen

Therefore, in my personal opinion, today, in our time when the WORD of GOD is finally completed without any FAULT of its OWN (not of Human Scribers' errors/mistakes like handwriting, spelling, printing, grammar, language translation, etc.)... we, Christian believers and followers of Christ must RELY Solely upon the written Holy BOOK/BIBLE (no longer Oral/Verbal Traditions).

[jvlp]

2 Thessalonians 2:15..." So then Brethren, Stand firm and Hold (Works/Deeds) to the TRADITION taught by us (Apostles/Disciples), either by spoken word (oral tradition) or by our letters."
2 Thessalonians 3:16... "Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brethren who are Walking in Idleness (Lazy Works/Deeds) and not in accordance with the TRADITION (oral/spoken word and letters/epistles) that you received from us (Apostles/Disciples)."

In Conclusion...the Christian Churches started without the Written (manuscripts) New Testament but with ORAL TRADITION (Spoken Word) more than 30 years after Christ Jesus Ascended to Heaven... therefore, SCRIPTURE (Bible) ALONE as the Sole Authority of God's Words is NON-BIBLICAL TRUTH... Amen.

[edjo]

"...Father, sanctify them in Thy Truth. Thy Word is the Truth."

[tysonguess]

Does the bible teach scripture alone?

short answer: no

Long answer:

[jcoon]

The Holy Gospel According to St. John, ch. 6
48  I am the bread of life. 
49  Your fathers did eat manna in the desert: and are dead. 
50  This is the bread which cometh down from heaven: that if any man eat of it, he may not die. 
51  I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world. 
52  The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 
53  Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you: except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. 
54  He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day. 
55  For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed.

[TylerMancuso]

Durbin is right on a lot of stuff but this one fell flat. The actual doctrine of sola scriptora was a 16th century idea developed by Luther. He kept saying “because Jesus and the apostles taught this (sola scriptora” and then talks for an hour and never actually says where that’s taught in the Bible. Ironically, it is the church, not scripture, that is hailed as “the pillar and ground of truth” (1 Tim. 3:15)… but through sola scriptora the word “church” flipped from the “one, holy, Catholic (universal), apostolic church” to just “the body of believers”…. Through sola scriptora, we have lost so many valuable traditions as a Christian body unfortunately.

[seattlecloudchaser]

We need to be so careful of false doctrine.

[seekingtruth]

I say this in a respectful way so don't get me wrong. But why would we need to watch a video when if we have the bible. If we open the bible and see sola scriptura written in scripture that all we need.

[NIA-]

I like how he jumped right to "traditions of classic Protestant move that itself violates the wider teaching of tradition within Scripture

[rbnmnt]

"T o the law and to the testimony, if they speak not according to THIS WORD it is because there is no light in them."

[jacobmierendorff]

I know nobody will see this...
But "Church babies" got me dead laughing!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[Burberryharry]

Isn’t sola scriptura a tradition of men?

[franklintandingan]

Bible alone, Infallible word of God, you say. It means that when pastor Durbin interprets bible verses this is just his opinion because he does not have an infallible authority to interpret the bible. The phrase “Body of Christ” is given more than 500 interpretations. Surely when pastor Durbin will interpret this, it will be another opinion.

[franklintandingan]

Another false teaching. You cannot find Bible Alone teaching in the bible. Emphasis on the word “Alone”

[redbearwarrior]

I'm not sure why Catholics don't except Sola Scriptura. My understanding of the doctrine is that Scripture alone is the ultimate authority regarding matters of faith. What is Scripture? I've always thought Scripture = every divinely inspired and infallible message from YHWH. So let's say that the Catholics are right. The Magisterial rulings of the Church are divinely inspired and infallible messages from YHWH. By definition wouldn't that make the Magisterial rulings Scripture? And therefore not contradictory to Sola Scriptura at all? I mean if something is a divinely inspired and infallible message from YHWH then I'm like "put that in the Bible". I'm seriously asking. I'm not trying to attack anybody.

[captainmarvel]

This man literally just made the case for the Roman Catholic Church with his interpretation of Sola Scriptura....absolutely ignorant and he should not teach.

[jimhunter]

In your sermon on sola scriptura, you chose “not to develop” your refutation against the strongest argument against sola scriptura. How do we know what is and isn’t canonical? For example, by what authority can you say that the book of Tobit is not canonical? To put faith in the inerrancy of the scriptures requires first putting faith in the inerrancy of the authority of the Church, otherwise we would could not confidently say which books are scriptural and which are not.