Dr. John Bergsma

Okay, yes and amen.

Scripture should have a kind of a primacy in our kind of hierarchy of authorities.

Tradition, which we mentioned in 2 Thessalonians 2.15, 2 Thessalonians 3.6,

1 Corinthians 11.2, in all those passages, St.

Paul affirms the importance of tradition, parodicis in Greek.

So scripture, we've got tradition, and then we've got leaders too.

And folks overlook this, but we're supposed to submit to our leaders.

And at the end of Hebrews, excuse me, St.

Paul,

urges us, I take St.

Paul to be the primary author of Hebrews, but St.

Paul urges us to obey our leaders and submit to their authority.

Hebrews 13, 17, obey your leaders and submit to them for they're keeping watch over your souls as men who will have to give an account.

So there's an assumption that all Christians have some leaders and that they should be in submission to those leaders.

I have an objection.

Because 2 Thessalonians 2.15 says by word of mouth.

So this is not, this is not tradition that's passed down.

So you take the position that everything that was passed down by word of mouth was written down.

Sure, why not?

Because the table of contents of the Bible was not.