The first doctrine episode explores General and Special Revelation and the Sources of Authority in Christian Tradition of Scripture, Tradition, Reason, and experience.

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Quotes:

“We receive all these books and these only as holy and canonical, for the regulating, founding, and establishing of our faith.” - Belgic Confession, Article 5 in Faith Alive Christian Resources, Christian Reformed Church in North America, and Reformed Church in America, Our Faith: Ecumenical Creeds, Reformed Confessions, and Other Resources (Grand Rapids, MI: Faith Alive Christian Resources, 2013), 28.

Calvin on: “the human urge to worship something,” - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 1536 Edition (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995), 1.3.2.

“this absolute and supreme being, the ultimate and most profound, this ‘thing in itself’,[sic] has nothing to do with God.” - Karl Barth, “Dogmatics in Outline,” in Practice of Theology, ed. Colin E. Gunton, Stephen R. Holmes, and Murray Rae (London: Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd, 2001), 274.

“so Scripture, gathering up the otherwise confused knowledge of God in our minds, having dispersed our dullness, clearly shows us the true God.” - Calvin, Institutes, 1.6.1.

“the Holy Spirit testifies in our hearts that [the books of the Bible] are from God, and also because they prove themselves to be from God.” - Belgic Confession Article 5 in Our Faith, 28.

“summary of the received teachings of the Christian church . . . a summary of the church’s confession about the basic story of the Christian faith, as informed by the Bible.” - J. Todd Billings, The Word of God for the People of God: An Entryway to the Theological Interpretation of Scripture (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2010), 17.

"It’s like a mosaic that has many tiny pieces of different colors. If one properly discerns the patterns in Scripture, then the pieces of the mosaic will fit together to form a beautiful portrait of a king (Christ). But it is possible to sever the proper connections between the pieces of the mosaic, leaving one with a portrait of a dog or a fox. By distorting the inherent pattern (the rule of faith) that holds scripture together, false (Gnostic) interpretations of Scripture miss what Scripture itself points to: Jesus Christ, as witnessed to by the Old and New Testaments. . . . Irenaeus realizes that Scripture is simply too large and complicated a book for one to proceed in without a sense of the narrative pattern that one will find within." - J. Todd Billings, The Word of God for the People of God: An Entryway to the Theological Interpretation of Scripture (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2010), 17.

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