CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS:
0:00 Intro: Whitaker, the Best Defender of Sola Scriptura
2:04 Whitaker's Error: Does the Church Outrank Scripture?
7:26 Whitaker's Straw Men & False Dichotomies
8:59 The Real Question: Who Settles Disagreements?
13:35 The Baptism Example & a Final Court of Appeal
15:22 Does the Church Dictate Every Interpretation?
17:40 "You're Not My Dad": Attacking the Church
19:58 The Luther Problem & the Shattered Windshield
25:03 Outro

William Whitaker's Disputation on Holy Scripture (1588) is considered by many Protestants to be the greatest book-length defense of Sola Scriptura ever written. So Kenny Burchard and Dave Armstrong decided to take it on directly. In this first episode of a new series, Dave — who devoted 173 pages to refuting Whitaker in his book Pillars of Sola Scriptura — walks through Whitaker's opening argument: that Catholics make Scripture inferior to the Church. The problem? The Council of Trent and Vatican I explicitly contradict that claim. And Whitaker knew it — he cites four Catholic apologists who denied it and ignores them anyway.

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• BOOK REPLIED TO
  William Whitaker, Disputation on Holy Scripture: Against the Papists, Especially Bellarmine and Stapleton, 1588; edition published in 1849 by the University Press of Cambridge - https://archive.org/details/disputationonhol00whituoft/mode/2up

• DAVE ARMSTRONG BOOKS: "CATHOLIC APOLOGETICS EBOOK SUPERSTORE" (50+ TITLES : EpUB + PDF FOR $9.99 / Save More with "Bundle" Discount Deals) - https://davearmstrongbooks.store

• DAVE’S RELATED BOOKS
  Pillars of Sola Scriptura: Replies to Whitaker, Goode, & Biblical “Proofs” for “Bible Alone” (Lulu Press: July 2012, 310 pages) - https://davearmstrongbooks.store/product/pillars-of-sola-scriptura/

100 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura (Catholic Answers Press: May 2012 / second revised edition: Bridge Builders press: Aug. 2025, 127 pages) - https://davearmstrongbooks.store/product/100-biblical-arguments-against-sola-scriptura/

• DAVE’S RELATED WEB PAGES
  Bible, Tradition, Canon, & “Sola Scriptura” - https://www.patheos.com/blogs/davearmstrong/2006/11/bible-church-tradition-canon-index.html

The [Catholic] Church and Ecclesiology - https://www.patheos.com/blogs/davearmstrong/2006/11/church-index-page.html

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