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Sola Scriptura: The Protestant Position on the Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

Sola Scriptura, the formal principle of the Protestant Reformation, is essential to genuine Christianity, for it declares that the Bible is the inspired word of God, the church’s only rule of faith and practice. Yet this doctrine is under assault today as never before, both from outside and inside the church. In this book, several leading Reformed pastors and scholars, including Joel Beeke,...

the canon. They say that the Bible alone cannot be our authority because the Bible does not tell us what books are in the Bible. They argue that the church must tell us what books are in the Bible. When they say the church must tell us, they mean that popes and councils must tell us. This implies that we did not have a Bible until Pope Damasus offered a list of the canon in 382, or, perhaps, until 1546, when the Council of Trent became the first “ecumenical” council to define the canon. But the people
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