Authority Claims of Rome - Matthew 16:18, part 39
I’m not sure I ever intended to write about this verse, mainly because I never saw it as necessarily related to Sola Scriptura . But as I finished up on a couple of other topics, I decided to see what else was left to discuss, and this was the next topic in the book series I’ve been following. For William Webster’s book, Holy Scripture, the Ground and Pillar of Our Faith , Volume II, this topic was one aspect of a much larger issue introduced. I found the same point being made in James White’s book, The Roman Catholic Controversy with greater detail, which got me looking at two additional books on my shelf. That next topic, which is now number 39 in the Sola Scriptura series, was dealing with the authority claims of the Catholic Church, which seems to have its root in Matthew 16:18. Church authority can be a difficult topic to discuss and even more difficult to challenge because there has to be authority structures in nearly everything humans do, even churches, otherwise y...