BIBLICISM w/ Pastor Steve Meister

Another interview on the Broadcast. This time, on biblicism! Leading up to our August 9th - 10th Conference, "Confessing the Faith".

[doingthingscheap]

I used to live in Sacramento. Wish I knew of this church before I moved!

[Obrandoporlaverdad]

The road to Rome and landing in the hands of catholic apologists. Great dialogue bro!!! Man more Evangelicals need to hear this.

[Obrandoporlaverdad]

Even though this is not a popular subject among Christians it is very important. I don't particularly agree with everything discussed here, but I see the importance and balance between Sola Scriptura and earlier confessions and historical theology. I believe in the development of systematics and doctrine, but our one and only anquor being the Scripture.

[bad_covfefe]

What if I think the Reformed creeds and confessions contradict scripture?

[CurtosiusMaximus]

I agree with so much of what you’re saying, but as a Catholic I cannot help but hear a lot of irony in what you’re saying.

First, I love this channel, and I want to say upfront I’m not trying to troll or be uncharitable. I was a Marine so I can come off a little rough around the edges.

I don’t know how to put this in question from so I’ll put it in statement form and hopefully someone can explain this to me.

The logical conclusion of Sola Scriptura IS biblicism. If your creeds and confessions are “authoritative” but “infallible”, then why should any Christian subscribe to them if they have the infallible word of God? Do they not reserve the right to disagree with your confessions if they don’t interpret the scriptures the same way your confessions do? Did not the 2nd London Baptist confession reserve the right to disagree with the Westminster Confession and start a whole new denomination? If a person is converting to Christianity, and they’re looking to choose a denomination based on who’s most “biblical”, rather than choosing on the basis of which church was established historically by the apostles, are they not still making themselves the final arbiter of biblical truth by finding a denomination (even if it’s confessional) based on how much that denomination agrees with them?
Lastly, scripture, while YES, infallible and supreme, is yet an inanimate object. It is a book. How can scripture interpret scripture? I cannot ask my Bible to clarify John 6. I cannot ask my Bible to clarify Roman’s 8. No one can, hence all the confusion among Protestants. So my last question, how is an infallible book any good to anyone without an infallible interpretation thereof?

Thank you! Again, nothing but charity. Just looking for some clarification here on what you believe.

[robertobeto]

The tradicion cristian is important for evolucion of cristian doctrina. The biblicism not is a good hermeneutics method.

[bad_covfefe]

If you admit that Biblicism is not practically possible and that no one is actually practicing it, then why bother railing against it? If solo scriptura is not actually practicable, then you must admit that every Protestant is actually practicing Sola Scriptura rather than solo scriptura, they just don't realize it. If that is the case, then the actual problems in Protestantism are not caused by solo scriptura but by Sola Scriptura.

[Obrandoporlaverdad]

Behond the fundamentals channel is a great example of what a Biblicist is. The guy denies any systematic theology, confessions, theological terms, etc.