Does Sola Scriptura Make Everyone Their Own Pope? Responding to John Bergsma and Matt Fradd
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July 20, 2025
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Does sola scriptura lead to chaos and individualism? Catholic theologian John Bergsma and Catholic podcaster Matt Fradd claim that rejecting the magisterium leaves Protestants without interpretive authority. Michael Horton, Bob Hiller, Walter Strickland, and Justin Holcomb answer this challenge by clarifying the Protestant doctrine of Scripture's sufficiency, clarity, and final authority.
0:00 Church diversity doesn't disprove the Sufficiency of Scripture
8:05 Does Sola Scriptura simply degenerate into verses vs. verses?
12:43 The Reformers never advocated for interpretation without accountability
15:15 Sola Scriptura makes us arbiters of the truth?
22:56 Sola Scriptura makes us our own popes?
27:48 Submitting to the Roman Catholic church is a personal judgment
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