As Seventh-day Adventists, we are Protestants, which means that we believe in sola Scriptura, the Bible alone as the sole authoritative foundation of our faith and doctrines. This is especially relevant in the last days, when, as Ellen G. White said, God will have “a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.”—The Great Controversy, p. 595.
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- 1 Psalm 119:105, NKJV Your word is a lamp to my feet, And a light to my path.
- 2 1 Thessalonians 2:13, NKJV For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe.
- 3 Matthew 4:4, NKJV But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”
- 4 Isaiah 8:20, NKJV To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
- 5 Hebrews 4:12, NKJV For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
- 6 Hebrews 11:6, NKJV But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
- 7 Deuteronomy 31:26, NKJV "Take this Book of the Law, and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there as a witness against you"
- 8 John 1:1-4, NKJV In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.
- 9 Psalm 19:1, NKJV The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows His handiwork.
- 10 Exodus 20:2, NKJV I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
- 11 Daniel 8:14, NKJV And he said to me, "For two thousand three hundred days; then the sanctuary shall be cleansed."
- 12 2 Peter 3:15-16, NKJV And consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.
- 13 James 1:22, NKJV But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.