Sola scriptura is Latin for "by scripture alone" and is a primary tenent of Lutheran theology. It holds that the Bible, as God's written word, is self-authenticating, clear (perspicuous) to the rational reader, its own interpreter ("scripture interprets scripture"), and sufficient of itself to be the final authority of Christian doctrine.

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