Solo Scriptura and Sola Scriptura...is there a difference?

Noxot said:

I believe that God set the bible down for those who have hard hearts and who can not but depend upon some secondary authority, i.e. the bread that God gives as opposed to the lips of his mouth that we are told by Jesus to live by. so since so many of Gods people want to play the games that they play, the Holy Spirit saw it good to teach many of his saints to so enforce utilizing the scriptures as a source of spiritual contemplation. and I tell you, what a genius God is, because we have such a rich tradition of the Holy bible now, it truly is a creative act of both man and of God. and so being desirous of God and the more than infinite and eternal desire that God has to love all his children I see no reason to profess a "sola or solo"-anything besides God alone. then in my walking and reasoning with God and in my own souls growth and development for both Gods and my own joy I see that we play a love game and a loving personal relationship in spirit and in truth and in the fullness of life that Jesus speaks of and I thirst for it just as much as I do not anymore thirst... for all things are ours and we are Christ's and Christ's is God's.

one can simply not escape from their own freedom. God gave it to us and so when we confess a thing it is always in part out of our own authority that we confess a thing and in seeing the Trinity I see how he lives, that it is his divine love and that it is what is good and so with my own freedom I will be with God and I shall not conform to secondary things but rather whatever that I have I shall have with God.

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Ortho_Cat said:

"According to Keith Mathison, over the last one hundred and fifty years Evangelicalism has replaced sola scriptura, according to which Scripture is the only infallible ecclesial authority, with solo scriptura, the notion that Scripture is the only ecclesial authority. The direct implication of solo scriptura is that each person is his own ultimate interpretive authority.

Solo scriptura is, according to Mathison, an unbiblical position; proponents of sola scriptura should uphold the claim that Scripture is the only infallible authority, but should repudiate any position according to which individual Christians are the ultimate arbiters of Scriptural truth. In this article we argue that there is no principled difference between sola scriptura and solo scriptura with respect to the holder of ultimate interpretive authority, and that a return to apostolic succession is the only way to avoid the untoward consequences to which both solo scriptura and sola scriptura lead."

Solo Scriptura, Sola Scriptura, and the Question of Interpretive Authority | Called to Communion

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