June 17, 2022 Show with Dr. Sam Waldron on “Do We Still Believe Sola Scriptura? A Word of Caution to Reformed Churches & Leaders About Present-day Dangerous Paths & Slippery Slopes on the Rise Among Us”

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Afternoon, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Lake City, Florida and the rest of humanity living on the planet Earth. We're listening via live streaming at iron sharpens iron radio .com. This is Chris Arnzen your host of iron sharpens Iron radio wishing you all a happy Friday on this 17th day of June 2022 and I'm delighted to have back on the program a returning guest Dr. Sam Waldron who is president and professor of systematic theology at Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary in Owensburg, Kentucky, and we're going to be addressing the theme.

Do we still believe in sola scriptura a word of caution to reform churches and leaders about present-day? Dangerous paths and slippery slopes on the rise among us and it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to iron sharpens iron radio dr. Sam Waldron.

Thank You Chris good to be with you.

And if you could let our listeners know something about Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary in Owensboro Kentucky the last time you were on the program. It probably had a different name back then. I'm almost certain that the name has changed since our last interview.

So why don't you tell us about this seminary?

Yes, so I think we were formally known as committed to the 60 great.

And if anybody wants any more details on Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary in Owensboro, Kentucky Go to CBT seminary org C for Covenant B for Baptist T for theological seminary org and God willing we'll be repeating that information later on in the program.

And I know that you're also one of the pastors at Grace Reform Baptist Church of Owensboro, Kentucky. Why don't you tell our listeners about that congregation?

Yes. Are hoping to be in to our new facility. Well, I also am.

Delighted to announce that one of my pastors John Miller Here at Grace Baptist Church of Carlisle, Pennsylvania is on your faculty at Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary.

You sir, right? Well, I'm going to give our listeners.

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By the way, I believe I forgot to give the website for Grace Reform Baptist Church of Owensboro, Kentucky For our listeners as well. That is grbco .org. Grbco .org for Grace Reform Baptist Church, Owensboro.

Grbco .org. Dr. Waldron, I have been a Christian since approximately 1985 and a Reform Baptist For nearly as long I was raised in the Roman Catholic Church had a false gospel obviously and Became a regenerate believer in the mid 80s and by God's good providence the very first church where I became a member after baptism was a Reform Baptist Church and although not immediately reformed in my thinking I Not long after that within maybe a couple of months. I came by God's grace to Understand and enthusiastically embrace and celebrate what we call the doctrines of Sovereign Grace and I am so thrilled about these doctrines and one of the things That has concerned me Lately, and maybe you have seen this on the rise amongst professedly reformed Christians and even Reform Baptists.

Maybe you have witnessed this occurring earlier, but as long as I've been a Reform Baptist the only Accusations that I ever heard against like-minded brethren of Denying Sola Scriptura or scripture alone as our sole Authority in matters of Faith and practice are so inerrant and infallible authority in matters of faith and practice.

The only time that that was Basically coming into challenge during the course of my Christian life was by our fundamentalist brethren who were non-confessional and Those accusations at that time for the most part as far as I could see and people I knew Were wrong they were slanderous.

I did not know anybody that elevated the confession to Anywhere near the par of scripture and certainly not above it. But in this day and age there seems to be Some truth in those accusations that have been rising up, and I'm not saying that those that perhaps are dabbling in those areas are consciously Doing it as a part of a creed or confession.

They're not saying that the confession is is equally authoritative or Superior in its authority but would you agree that there seems to be some language amongst our fellow brethren and even Reform Baptists that that Come dangerously close to coming to those conclusions.

Well, I have to. The stocking began to and I wondered about the implication or what I had just read. Or what I had just in my heart about this matter especially especially because it can Can be held on this matter.

Now perhaps you should define Sola Scriptura as it has been historically and accurately believed and Adhered to. There are caricatures of it that might be more aptly named. So low Scriptura. Our Roman Catholic friends tend to slander us with caricatures of Sola Scriptura that no one that I not that I am aware of throughout history has ever Believed they they are accusing us of saying that.

Every.

Fact Is contained in the canon of the scripture and things like that that that no Nobody who believes in Sola Scriptura has ever said. So why don't you give us a biblical? Explanation definition of Sola Scriptura.

Well, I reverse the whole great but in paragraphs things necessary may be deduced from Scripture. Unto which nothing at any time, of course limitations placed on it. You've just mentioned one of them.

Of course, the confession is very clear about that. It is necessary both God concerning everything necessary about what so we're talking about all the articles of the faith or The Westbrook so Sola Scriptura this is does not say does not mean.

That's if there's all the whole phone involves both what is and if the doctor will Is he and I see if it's found in script one of the things over what it's or not but allow for of that kind of conclusion conclusions on the basis and.

The confession itself that we love the 1689 London Baptist Confession also known as the Second London Confession Makes it clear that it itself is not inerrant or infallible and that only the scriptures Indeed are our inerrant and infallible authority.

That's right. That's for paragraphs 9 and 10 of the confession of faiths first chapter and it might be good just to Note those Paragraph 10 particularly the Supreme Judge By which all controversies of religion are to be determined and all decrees of counsels opinions of ancient writers Doctrines of men and private spirits are to be examined can be no other but the Holy Scripture delivered by the Spirit and so and.

Can you please tell us the primary areas of concern That have arisen in your mind that even compelled you to write an article that is publicly available on all forms of social media including the Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary website.

Do we believe in solo script. Torah. What led you to feel so passionately about errors that you perceive are On the rise in this area of solo script. Torah That that you said. I've got to put this in writing.

I've got to make this a matter of public record that I am very uncomfortable With what I am witnessing and hearing and I've got to give a warning to the Saints about it.

I think it's a I think we this is what truth is. The width of a razor's edge. Somebody is the foundation of our faith and.

So.

Principal I was I guess I I want to say I thought to myself. I acknowledge the scriptural doctrine that and the confessional doctrine it goes on to say that there are some. There are some. Wonder. It's another.

Regarded as good regarded as Harris trouble me. Covenant's too far. Slow away from now if you could differentiate from.

That and Understanding like for instance if a Deacon or perhaps even an elder or some Formally faithful man in the congregation is leading a Bible study or something like that and He is teaching something that violates one of the primary tenets that a Confessional church adheres to and there would be occasions when The the elders would point out to this individual who may be even under discipline for these things or at least removed from a an activity of teaching.

It.

Might be initially pointed out to this person we adhere to the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith and the summary of Biblical teachings that we adhere to are contained in this Confession and therefore you have violated this article or that article.

What would be the difference between that which it's still an understanding that it's a biblical violation. But you're just pointing to the the the fact that since you are Officially confessional and you agree with the the framers Exegesis as to the primary doctrines contained in the confession that you're just going to that first to avoid a a Debate over what the scripture teaches you're actually going to a settled issue in the confession.

Yeah, Bible study and someone brought it to my attention. I would not be embarrassed. In a ministry of this what we understand. It's agreed upon. Understanding of what scriptural fundamental prints. It's important here.

Allow the can some distinctions like this for the foundation or perhaps to turn the foundation inside out. And it it does not hold any airs. But it does say that a man who holds an air does undermine his Christian to understand that facility, right?

Here's the confession, but I wouldn't. I'll take the man to script. Here's why you're wrong. Here's what this but here's why the confession and and we must we must take people to scripture and not simply stop.

Sola Scriptura, Confessional Authority, and the 1689 Baptist Confession

Now one of the things that I have seen And heard that have given me reasons to be troubled is That there are fellow Reformed Baptists who are saying Publicly we have been using a wrong hermeneutic for as long as we have been professedly Reformed Baptists and It is being told to us that we have to adopt a new hermeneutic.

And that would even include viewing scriptures through the lenses of Thomas Aquinas and I I'm a former Roman Catholic and I happen to know that Thomas Aquinas is brilliant as he was and I'm not saying that everything he believed was false and That would be the case with most of the most renowned Roman Catholic Theologians throughout the centuries.

Not everything that he would say is false but He was clearly not a brother in Christ. He rejected the gospel. He had a gospel that was later Repeated in the Council of Trent the very Council that anathematized Protestants for our understanding of justification in the gospel.

I have a very hard time Viewing that man as an authority and to the point where I'm supposed to be viewing the scriptures through his lenses and But he but even beyond that Even if an atheist says something that's true.

It's true. The fact that it seems to be.

Frighteningly close to a denial of soul of scripture. Do you know where I'm coming from here a little bit? Of God which our confession for instance, and there's a great vehicle doctrine among evangelical and even some reformed thinkers.

Eternity but these are beginning to unravel the classical Christian doctrine of God and I've defended those doctrines many times. I will keep defending them, but I Think what that he has seen as the Classical Christian doctrine of God.

Now what I would like to say about all this is that. All their numbers like in fact.

Could we could we have you really target that directly when we come back from the first break? We have to go to our first station break. Sure, that's great. And we can return with a fuller examination of your views of Thomas Aquinas and the adoption of Reformed people of this historic figure.

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We are addressing a very Important question do we still believe in sola scriptura and this we is being directed Right now exclusively towards Our fellow reformed brethren. If you have a question Send it in to Chris Arnson at gmail .com Chris Arnson at gmail .com and give us your first name at least your city and state and country of residence.

Right before the break Dr. Waldron you're beginning to give your thoughts on Thomism the doctrines championed by Thomas Aquinas and using his lenses as a vital hermeneutic Principle in order to rightly understand not only the scriptures, but even our.

1689 London Baptist Confession, but I think I see he looks like not in everything what I want to say. Oh, yeah I'm still here. I got it. I got a signal. Aquinas is none the other thing how. One of the things I even by our Protestant and reformed forefathers.

There was a scholastic methodology use. Well, that means that one of the things I want he's right and by name most of those times He cites Aquinas. Oh. Not every times when he cites Aquinas. It is with what he said.

Aquinas isn't Augustan and some are there as well. The other thing I want once out. Mr Aquinas now we have to accept this now and his understanding of. Keep finding out so stop there. They did not agree with each other.

And I think I can show what was part, but it's like there's this universal tradition. That that was always the same everywhere and always. Well, that's that there were disagreements among these men. About things like how you prove the X and even though there was a general God.

We can't just take that and go everywhere about how the Bible is to be enjoyed. No, but the fact of the matter is. That you get that impression that they think we know that's not true. And we have to wait a second with Aquinas interpreting the Bible with the help of the great pastor teachers that got the 2 ,000 years of church history and we ignore their teaching and we know their interpretation.

But it's a terrible Lord and master and we must we must distinguish. Well, isn't one of the.

Reasons that we're even having this conversation today. Is that there are those who are saying? That Reform Baptist. Now, obviously we believe as reform Baptists that our beliefs are biblical. But they did not become Real popular.

Until a resurgence of The beliefs in the doctrines of sovereign grace amongst Baptists and the mid 20th century. So so basically there is There is a accusation being made. I'm assuming that there the accusations are being made about those Reform Baptists whether they use that title or not all the way back from the.

1950s.

And onward until today that the we all have been wrong in the way that we have Interpreted the scriptures. Our hermeneutic has been wrong and we all should change. In order to be faithful to the scriptures, isn't that a reason for?

Alarm.

Bells to go off that may may while they were all. Fallibility of scripture anything they basically that We must interpret out the language of the Bible means what it meant in the context of asserts of the context of the laws of a given but here's here's and and and.

It wasn't so much that it was. He added another word. He said that That a grammatical and the minds of the human authors go farther than that Autistic notion that the Bible can only mean what the original readers thought it met is Simply not to an ultimate alter author scurm.

So it's been said in a number of different ways we have to interpret scripture in terms of its canonical trajectory. We have to have a big place in our number being taught in Bible college that We couldn't assume that there were any types in scripture, but the ones that were mail.

That's not true, but then those the new proofs 9 and 10. Yeah, I thought that there were not so much wrong.

Lol.

Yeah, so my Bible histories.

I wish another derogatory term could be chosen because I hate to think of Biblicism being used in some kind of negative or heretical way. It seems strange.

Yeah, and okay. It is it is mean bias that the Bible's in terms of the guides and teach. Well of course I accept the need for the guy what the Bible says by good and in fact.

The Danger of a New Hermeneutic and Thomistic Influence

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