The Transcendental Argument for Sola Scriptura

Comes to Hebrews chapter 4 and 2nd Timothy chapter 3 verse 16 when we talk about the inscripturation of Scripture, right?

We are talking about its nature if that is God -bred That is just as authoritative

From the the Saints during the time of the New Testament in which the Apostles the prophetic offices were still in a play

God's Word whether the Rhema or inscripturated is just as Authoritative and so yes, we did talk a little bit about epistemology

But any epistemological claim to knowledge is couched with an entire worldview

And so I'm a little disappointed that Peter and Joe did not engage with this transcendental framework that God's perspicuous word that's clearly revealed is a necessary reality for Human intelligibility what

I mean by that is Positively we read in Scripture Jesus says your word is truth

We are able to understand that God reveals himself Clearly in terms of what he wants from us and if so if they come back and say well that doesn't tell us

Faith and practice. Well, he begins that verse by saying father sanctify them in your truth

This is identical to what Paul is saying that God's Word is able to equip the Saint the man of God the woman of God Someone that loves

God with all their heart soul mind and strength And so I really do think of the principle of sola scriptura always appealing back to truth

Which comes from God whether it be in Scripture or whether it be from you know, a prophet speaking

I love what the I will love what King David said in Psalm 119 starting in verse 41

Let me share this with you real quick because this is the battle cry of sola scriptura David said let your steadfast love come to me.

Oh Lord of your salvation according to your promise How would the Saints of old understood the promise it would be from God's law from God speaking to his people and he says

Then I shall have an answer For him who taunts me for those that want to cast doubt on the clarity of God's Word being revealed to his people

David goes on to say for I trust in your word and take not the word of truth

Utterly out of my mouth for my hope is in your rules Notice David is doing exactly what

Jesus did when we talk about truth. This assumes an entire worldview What is truth truth is that which corresponds to reality as perceived by the sovereign triune

God? We are dependent on him Clearly revealing to us who we are who he is and what he wants from us in faith and practice.

So the point is Scripture is truth that which is God breathed we always look to God to reveal to us truth and the epistemology of that is saying that is a

Necessary precondition for our human experience and no truth. You have to look to God God must be able to speak perspicuously clearly to the

Imago Dei the image bearers of God and so David goes on to say and take not the word of Truth utterly out of my mouth for my hope is in your rules

I will keep your law continually forever and ever and I shall walk in a wide way for I have sought your precepts

I will also speak of your testimonies before Kings and shall not be put to shame For I find my delight in your commandments, which

I love I will lift up my hands toward your commandments, which I love and I will meditate on your statutes

That is sola scriptura folks we look to God's Word for truth for guidance in everything of life and What Roman Catholics seem to have trouble and a lot of this may be on my side not understanding their side as well

But there's no way around it that this these are two different worldviews. I would actually say that Peter and Joe are not being consistent with their ultimate foundations.

I don't think this three -legged stool is Actually equally ultimate I think underlying this three -legged stool is their own human reason

Human reason will not give you truth. We have to ask the question. What transcends human reason?

What has existed eternally and absolutely for us to be able to have this conversation? Well God must be triune

God must be triune in eternal Relationship with one another to account for everything that goes on in our world

And so God's Word would transcend our time and space and so we are we are

Presupposing that God must speak clearly in this fashion in order for us to justify anything

Because we are talking about truth itself. And so kind of lastly here

Protestants I either say this to kind of slap our Protestant brothers around we don't need to fear the word tradition

Peter or Joe one did a great job of defining what tradition ones what it is

It's merely to be passed down to be handed down and for the other side to receive it now

We didn't get much into this but second Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 15 I believe tradition there also found in 1st

Corinthians chapter 11 verse 2 that tradition is The tradition of the gospel that is the oral teaching that we see the

Apostle Paul He is orally speaking the gospel and also writing that gospel to be handed down to God's people.