Sola Scriptura beginning in 70 AD is a claim out of thin air. It makes no sense from reason, history, Tradition, or the Scriptures

“Sola Scriptura Began in 70 AD”

by Devin Rose

I debated a Protestant scholar named Nathanael Taylor last night. You can listen to the full two hours here. In the next several posts I plan to unpack our discussion and continue with some threads that we weren’t able to pursue to completion.

I asked Nathanael when sola Scriptura “kicked in” as the sole infallible rule of faith in the early Church, and surprisingly, he answered “70 AD, with the destruction of the Jewish Temple.”

This assumes that 1) all books of the NT were completed by 70 AD and to a lesser degree that 2) the Church had come to understand and separate these twenty-seven inspired writings from the non-inspired ones.

I’m going to ignore the disputable claim made by Nathanael that the book of Daniel teaches that all books of the NT will be completed by 70 AD. I’m also going to ignore the fact that in 70 AD the canon of the NT was not crystallized in the Church’s understanding. Instead, I’m going to focus on one interesting consequence of this peculiar view, one that no Protestant I have ever talked to has believed.

1. Some Apostles still lived in 70 AD
2. But sola Scriptura was now the rule
3. So Christians could reject the teachings of the Apostles if they were different than their individual interpretation of the Scriptures

Some readers may think that this conclusion is (almost patently) absurd. Yet I can say with confidence that Nathanael holds to this position, because I asked the similar question later, whether he would obey Timothy as the successor of the Apostle or not. And he responded that he would only follow Timothy, bishop of Ephesus, insofar as Timothy agreed with Nathanael’s interpretation of the Scriptures.

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