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Voddie Baucham on Authority of Scripture

B. 1969 · REFORMED BAPTIST
STANDARD SCHOLARLY ACCOUNTAFFIRMS°
STANCE

Scripture alone is the final, only infallible authority

THE POSITION

Sola scriptura and inerrancy, pressed as the ground for evaluating cultural and political claims.

WHY THERE IS NO QUOTATIONNo quotations, and copyright is not the reason: this map quotes MacArthur, Heiser and Sproul at length, all modern authors in copyright. No primary-source pass has been run on him and nothing in this repo records one. The summaries here restate the stance rather than paraphrase a source, and the millennium cell says outright that it is not known with confidence. These nine stay at established and unknown until someone reads him.

SCRIPTURE
2 TIMOTHY 3:16-17 · BSB

16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.

22 OTHERS HOLD THIS

Jacobus ArminiusCalvinJonathan EdwardsThe Church of Eleven22 Statement of FaithCharles Grandison FinneyBilly GrahamM. HeiserJosh HowertonTim KellerSecond London Baptist ConfessionLutherJohn MacArthurPhilip MelanchthonGavin OrtlundJohn OwenJustin PetersJohn PiperR.C. SproulWesleyWestminster ConfessionGeorge WhitefieldZwingli
Scripture with tradition and church teaching officeAQUINAS · BASIL THE GREAT · CHALCEDON · CHRYSOSTOM · CONSTANTINOPLE I · EPHESUS · NICAEA I · WILLIAM OF OCKHAM · JOHN DUNS SCOTUS
Scripture supreme, recognized and interpreted through the churchATHANASIUS · AUGUSTINE · IRENAEUS
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Pastor, apologist, and dean of theology at African Christian University, Zambia. Reformed, cessationist, and strongly family-discipleship focused.

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"Voddie Baucham on Authority of Scripture", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/baucham/scripture-authority (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/baucham/scripture-authority).

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