"Scripture Alone"

Explain the concept of "Sola Scriptura" and inerrancy of Scripture.


"Sola Scriptura" is a Latin phrase. To find out what it means, let us look at what each individual word translates to.

We can quite easily make a guess on what "Scriptura" means. If you said, "Scriptures", then you're pretty accurate! It actually translates to "writings", but refers to the Scriptures.
"Sola" as a noun, can be translated to "bottom", "ground" and "floor". As a verb however, it carries the meaning of "single", "alone", "having no companion" and "unique".
Put together then, we get "Scriptures Alone".

"Sola Scriptura" is a Christian doctrine that the Bible alone is authoritative for the Christian faith. It is complete, infallibale and inerrant, and contains all necessary knowledge for salvation and holiness. "Sola Scriptura" was a rallying cry of the Protestant Reformation against the rule and practices of the Roman Catholic Church of the time.


Inerrancy in Christianity is another doctrine that holds the Bible to be accurate and without error. Most Evangelical Christian denominations hold to this teaching.

Who Are You, God?

"If God exists, what would be the description or idea of God?"

God does exist. He must. Scientists and evolutionists who try to explain him away will soon discover or at least admit (if they are honest enough) that their theories must arrive at an uncaused cause. Let me explain.

In a nutshell, evolutionists say that complex organisms (like ourselves) are the result of evolution from simpler life forms (such as a single-cell amoeba). They continue to trace further backward, breaking simple forms to even simpler forms. Not too long ago, the tiniest particle ever thought possible was the atom. But even then, the atom was split open to contain neutrons, protons and electrons. More recently, the proton was discovered to contain quarks. Perhaps science will continue to discover smaller and smaller particles, but the one fact they cannot escape, is that all matter must come from something. From my point of view, that something is God.

So assuming that God does exist, what is He like? History paints God in many pictures. He is a heavenly being, rests on clouds, controls weather and the elements, even flanked by other demi-gods. Greek and even Asian mythology describes him (or them in this case) to be subject to mood swings and even bound by certain limitations.

Our idea of God is shaped by our worldviews. Even the Christian worldview will see God as either the jealous, angry, judging deity of the Old Testament, or the gentle, loving and obligated father of the Gospels. The problem with our situation is that He cannot be one without being the other. God is one, and the Scriptures tells us that He is and always will remain the same (Heb 13:8). So, will the real God please stand up?

We must be careful in allowing different worldviews to project ideas into our understanding of who God is. The real God is the one revealed to us through the Bible. Unless we study it and know it well, we don't know our God well.

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