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Second, "the authority of scripture" is itself a doctrine - determined again by some human authority.

In the sense that God's Word is final on any subject it covers. The human authority is a recognition of that fact. Catholics don't do that.

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God’s Word is jesus. Yes, that’s the final Word.

However, Sola Scriptura, or one particular person or church’s interpretation of Scripture, is a doctrine promulgated beginning around 1500 years after Christ.

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Question: Why isn’t Lutheranism the same as Calvinism?

Same Scripture, same “authority of scripture” foundational belief.

Yet two very different theologies.

Why?