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God’s Word Alone—The Authority of Scripture is unavailable, but you can change that!

Historians and theologians alike have long recognized that at the heart of the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation were five declarations (or “solas”) that distinguished the movement from other expressions of the Christian faith. Five hundred years later, we live in a different time with fresh challenges to our faith. Yet these rallying cries of the Reformation continue to speak to us,...

hand, never contradicting each other, but validating and confirming each other.160 Fourth, only Scripture is our infallible and inerrant authority. Like Luther, Calvin’s stance on the supremacy of Scripture over tradition reveals his belief in what we today refer to as the inerrancy of Scripture. Calvin did not explicitly articulate a doctrine of inerrancy with all of the nuancing used today in response to modern and postmodern challenges. But we would be misrepresenting Calvin to say that the basic
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