Sola! Tota! Perficio! Satis!

Sola scriptura – only scripture is authoritative.

1 Corinthians 4:6 
Tota scriptura – all of scripture is authoritative.

Acts 20:27; Jeremiah 26:2; Ezekiel 40:4; Matthew 28:20

Perfect scripture – only scripture is inerrant in its original language.

Matthew 5:18;  2 Pet. 3:16; 2 Tim 3:16; 2 Timothy 2:15

Sufficient scripture – scripture has all we need to be saved and sanctified.

2 Timothy 3:16-17

When people – particularly leaders and teachers and councils – stray even a little from these four solid truths we get confusion, heresy and apostasy. We get false gospels and false religions.

The Serpent in the garden of Eden hissed: “Did God really say …” and thus began the doubt in the Word of God. (Genesis 3)

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' ” But God had only said: “you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil”, so the woman, right at the start, began adding things to the Word of God by saying that the prohibition included the touching of the tree. It wasn’t long before she and her husband were inventing false religion and trying to save themselves: ‘so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.’ 

Build your future and your hope on the bedrock of Scripture and the Gospel it speaks of. Know and live out only the will of God as revealed in His Word. Otherwise you are building your future on the shifting sands of human opinion, discovery, experience, inclination, theory and tradition.

Would you really trust your eternal future on people??

Read the Bible!