Shameless Popery #266 This Brand New Sola Scriptura Argument Surprised Me…
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May 5, 2026 A breakdown of a new argument for sola scriptura called the Attribute Inscripturation Thesis. Discussion of four proposed textual entailments: sufficiency, clarity, authority, and self-authentication. Historical and textual critiques, including parables, progressive revelation, and canon formation. A final assessment arguing God could have required sola scriptura but did not.
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Attribute Inscripturation Thesis Summarized
- Christopher Kloos argues divine attributes make Scripture necessarily sufficient, clear, authoritative, and self-authenticating.
- Joe Heschmeyer summarizes Kloos' Attribute Inscripturation Thesis (AIT) as entailments from God's communicative perfections across possible worlds.
Scripture Was Meant To Complement Oral Revelation
- Heschmeyer rejects Kloos' formal sufficiency claim by showing inspired individual books (e.g., Deuteronomy) were never meant alone to supply full salvation instruction.
- He uses Paul, Hebrews, and the historical progressive revelation to show God revealed truth gradually and not all at once in single texts.
First Century Roman Finding Deuteronomy Thought Experiment
- Heschmeyer invites us to imagine a first-century Roman finding Deuteronomy alone before the New Testament existed.
- The thought experiment shows an inspired book, by itself, wouldn't have sufficed to reveal Christ or guarantee salvation understanding.