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Justin Peters on Authority of Scripture

LIVING · REFORMED BAPTIST / DISPENSATIONAL
READ IN A PRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°
STANCE

Scripture alone is the final, only infallible authority

The Bible is infallible and inerrant in the original autographs, God-breathed, and wholly sufficient for every aspect of life for both the individual believer and corporate body of Christ.
Statement of Faith, The Holy Scriptures ↗

THE POSITION

Scripture is verbally and plenarily inspired, inerrant in the original autographs, and sufficient on its own for the whole of Christian life — for the individual believer and the gathered church alike. Sufficiency is load-bearing within the document rather than decorative: the Spiritual Gifts section reaches its cessationist conclusion by way of it, arguing the Apostolic gifts are unnecessary because Scripture is already complete for knowing and obeying God's will.

SCRIPTURE
2 TIMOTHY 3:16 · BSB

16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

18 OTHERS HOLD THIS

Jacobus ArminiusVoddie BauchamCalvinJonathan EdwardsThe Church of Eleven22 Statement of FaithM. HeiserJosh HowertonSecond London Baptist ConfessionLutherJohn MacArthurPhilip MelanchthonGavin OrtlundJohn OwenJohn PiperR.C. SproulWesleyWestminster ConfessionZwingli
Scripture with tradition and church teaching officeAQUINAS · BASIL THE GREAT · CHALCEDON · CHRYSOSTOM · CONSTANTINOPLE I · EPHESUS · NICAEA I
Scripture supreme, recognized and interpreted through the churchATHANASIUS · AUGUSTINE · IRENAEUS
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Discernment evangelist whose Clouds Without Water seminar — grown from his Th.M. thesis on Benny Hinn — is the best-known evangelical critique of the Word of Faith movement, and since 2026 senior pastor of a church plant outside Billings, Montana.

12 OF 18 POSITIONS QUOTED
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"Justin Peters on Authority of Scripture", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/peters/scripture-authority (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/peters/scripture-authority).

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