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5 Reasons Sola Scriptura is a Lie


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"The Bible alone" isn't just a lie. It's poisonous fruit that divides Christianity and misguides the Christian faithful.

The Bible didn't fall from the sky. The canon you're holding came out of sacred tradition. Christianity didn't come from the Bible; the Bible came from Christianity. In this episode I lay out five reasons sola scriptura doesn't hold up—and I'm not rehashing the same debate you've seen a hundred times on YouTube. I want to come at it from a different angle.

I get into why the Bible never actually teaches sola scriptura, what Christians were doing for the centuries before the canon was even settled, how Scripture itself points back to apostolic tradition, and why "scripture alone" can't even tell you which books belong in Scripture in the first place. Then I get to what I think is the real problem: it fractures Christian unity. When you leave interpretation to the individual, you end up with denominations waving the same Bible and landing on opposite answers—with no authority to settle it.

In this episode:
Why the Bible came out of sacred tradition, not the reverse
The five core flaws of sola scriptura, one at a time
What Christians relied on before the canon was finalized
Why there's no "magisterium" to call balls and strikes in Protestantism
How "scripture alone" produces contradiction instead of unity

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