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You trust the book. Why not the men who assembled it?

The list of twenty-seven books in the back of your New Testament was written out by a bishop in Alexandria in AD 367. Athanasius issued it; the Church received it. Sola scriptura hands every reader authority over what those books mean while setting aside the men who settled which books they were. These studies put the Fathers back beside the Bible, in full, with every reference linked.

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The whole passage, before a word of commentary

Every session opens with the texts to read, and disputed passages are printed in full before anything is said about them — including the verses that cut against the argument. You will not be handed a conclusion with the awkward half of the passage quietly missing.

Two

The Fathers, in their own words

Not only the five names you half know. Syriac hymns from the Persian frontier, catechisms from Jerusalem, letters from Alexandria, and men writing in our own lifetime — Greek, Latin, Syriac, Slavonic, English. Two thousand years of it, and the Church has not finished writing. Quoted at length, always with the work and chapter. You don't have to grant them authority to find it worth knowing what they said.

Three

Nothing on trust

Every Scripture reference opens the passage in a new tab. Where the New Testament quotes the Old, the Old Testament text is printed beside it. Every historical claim links to a primary source. The instinct to verify is the right one; this is built for it.

I never questioned it either

I was raised in a non-denominational church and taught dispensationalism by a pastor who had it taught to him, and it never once occurred to me to ask where it came from. Nobody here is being told they were lied to. These studies are simply what I found when I went looking.