Dr. John Bergsma

And one of my professors said, no, that wouldn't be appropriate.

They're Orthodox according to their tradition and we're Orthodox according to ours.

And I just stammered and didn't know what to say, but what this seemed to me to be, and what it actually is, is a kind of just Christian pluralism.

It's different strokes for different folks.

You have your approach to the faith, he has his, and we can't come to a knowledge of the truth.

we can't figure out what is supposed to be true for all Christians.

And it leads you to a kind of an epistemological despair or like, you know, we just have these, we have these different approaches to what it means to be Christian and we have no higher court of appeal to which we can go to adjudicate between our different approaches.

And that's because we don't acknowledge a successor of Peter.

And then you get into all kinds of trouble.

We used to have a song that we sang in our glee club at my college that was about ecumenism.

And one of the lines in the song was, it doesn't matter if we agree as long as we serve him faithfully.

And me and my seminarian colleagues, there's just several of us that were seminarians that were in this glee club.

We would just ridicule that line, you know, because it was so obviously selling out on any specifics, any particular doctrines, throwing that all to the wind and say, well, you know, we just love Jesus together.

Yeah.

And as conservative Calvinist seminarians, we believed in truth and coming to the truth.

Right.

And the problem is you can't come to a common definition of faithfulness if the interpretation of scripture is left up to every individual.

And this is the hidden danger of Sola Scriptura that people don't recognize.

I watched our good friend and brother Gavin Ortlund give a defense of Sola Scriptura on YouTube.

I think he had a half hour defense of Sola Scriptura that I watched a couple of days ago.