# “Nothing may be put on a level with Scripture” by Herman Bavinck

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2017/06/16/nothing-may-be-put-on-a-level-with-scripture-by-herman-bavinck/
- Published: 2017-06-16T12:00:09-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“Church and confession must yield to Scripture. Not the church but Scripture is 
self-authenticating (_αὐτοπιστος_), the judge of controversies (_iudex controversiarum_),
and its own interpreter (_sui ipsius interpres_).

Nothing may be put on a level with Scripture. Church, confession, tradition—all 
must be ordered and adjusted by it and submit themselves to it…

Scripture alone is the norm and rule of faith and life (_norma et regula fidei et
vitae_). The confession deserves credence only because and insofar as it agrees 
with Scripture and, as the fallible work of human hands, remains open to revision
and examination by the standard of Scripture…

All Christian churches are united in the confession that Holy Scripture is the foundation
of theology, and the Reformation unanimously recognized it as the only foundation(
_principium unicum_).”

–Herman Bavinck, Eds. John Bolt and John Vriend, [_Reformed Dogmatics, Volume 1: Prolegomena_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0801026326?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2003), 86-87.

 

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