Sola Scriptura

BTW: This meme is a Repost I've decided to include here for this stream.

So it boils down to: it is written by God because it says it is?

Not just that, if you read more closely God proved the scripture's inspiration through His only Son. Jesus proved the scriptures true when He fulfilled the prophecies about Him.

The chances of a prediction to come true is 50:50, but Jesus at least fulfilled 40 prophecies in His lifetime which includes (https://jewsforjesus.org/answers/top-40-most-helpful-messianic-prophecies/):

Who is He (Isaiah 9:6 & 48:16-17)
Where He was born (Micah 5:2)
How He was born (Isaiah 7:14)
The time of His birth (Danial 9:26)
What He will do to save us (Isaiah 53:1-6, 10)
How He will die (Psalms 22:16)
The fact that He will not remain dead (Psalms 16:10)

The New Testament was written after his death.

Which doesn't automatically invalidate the story. The fact that the Old Testament were rich in detail about Jesus and that you have the Apostles dying for what they saw, proves that the scriptures are true.

I'll return in a few hours

Sola Scriptura, or Scripture Alone is the cornerstone of the Reformation as through scripture and no other is the most autthoritative source for it is the word of God in written form

The inspirational nature and power of the Bible is such that it defends itself and needs no special interpreter. The false prophets tried and treid again to destroy its authenticity and credibility with the same Satanic line:

"Hath God saith...."

They do so by claiming it has errors... it is incomprehendable ... lost in translation... corrupted by man... and so thus requires a person of such spiritual quality, being, or intelligence to properly interpret it.

In order to manipulate its meaning for his/her benefit.

Satan was the first to cast doubt on the word of God; then false prophets of various kinds arose throughout the ages to do the same but before the word was written it was a contest of miracles.

When the word was wrritten, and the Prophets no longer relevant, then new forms of attacks came into being.

The Gnostics written their own text with a claim of having exclusive answers from God to subvert attention from scripture. Muhammad claimed that the scriptures has been corrrupted in the 6th century, then Joseph Smith clamed the same in the mid 19th century, and the Jehovah's Witnesses have their Watchtowers and Awakes. In one way or another, cult leaders made themselves directly or indirectly present themselves as sole authority in interpreting scriptures by the virtue of their persona.

They all have this one thing in common: a necessity of an authority over the scriptures and the Pope is no diffferent.

According to the Roman Catholic church, while the Scriptures is inspired, the Pope alone could interpret scripture correcly. Catholic Apologists claimed that without the Pope, there will be a myriad of churches claiming this and that, so the need of an authority to decree scriptural orthodoxy.

While that is true, that only assumes that the scriptures are difficult to understand which is a classic attack on the scripture itself. "Hath God saith"?

The real truth is that God's word is not incomprehensible:

The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. - Deuteronomy 29:29

The word of God is pure (Psalm 12:6), and it is tried (Psalm 18:30); it is preserved (Proverbs 22:12) and thus trustworthy (Proverbs 22:19-21). And it's purpose is not just to make one righteous, but it is to be a tester of truth (2 Timothy 3:16-17).

And this is why scripture, and scripture alone, is to be the sole and primary authority of truth; all matters of doctrine and practices is to be tried and screen by the use of the scriptures and not the so-called Prophet, Pope, or Oracle.

To cast doubt on the word of God is to cast doubt on God Himself..