Dr. John Bergsma

Okay, but apart from that, give me one other example.

No, that's huge.

Monogamy.

Okay.

Monogamy is not clearly taught in the New Testament.

It's implied.

Fornication is condemned.

Adultery is condemned.

No, because it's not fornication or adultery if you're married to her.

Okay, so this is- Polygamy isn't outright condemned.

It's not outright condemned and it's practiced in the Old Testament.

Now, that's a classic case where the Christian church has always practiced monogamy, but it's not completely explicit in the written word of God.

And throughout Christian history, different heresies have arisen and many of them have challenged monogamy

the teaching on monogamy, Islam and Mormonism being two prime examples, okay?

So what I wanna emphasize, folks think that by sola scriptura, that they are going to exalt and honor the written word of God.

What I discovered firsthand is that if you dispense with tradition, you leave the word of God at the mercy of Bible scholars.

And what I experienced in Protestantism was we had a synod every year and at any given synod of our church, some Bible scholar could get up and give some kind of revisionist interpretation and say, we've had it wrong for 2000 years.

We should really, I don't know, marry a male and a male or fornication really isn't bad or you can have an extra wife or divorce is okay or whatever.

And

than anything imaginable, okay?