More specifically, it is the triune God who reveals Himself, for authority and revelation are correlates. Thus, Scripture has become our authority because as an infallible record of God's self-revelation it perpetuates Christ's personal authority. The best way to answer this is to examine how Christ and His apostles viewed Scripture. The Gospels reveal that Jesus held Scripture in the highest regard. The strongest evidence for the authority of the Bible is the fact that Jesus used Scripture as the final court of appeal in every matter under dispute.
Scripture therefore determines whether tradition is acceptable.
And, as followers of Christ, our view of Scripture cannot be inferior to His. The New Testament became a permanent, infallible record of what was earlier an oral message. Because Scripture is identified with the gospel, it is authoritative. Jesus Christ speaks to us authoritatively only through the objective Word of God. Copyright 1994 by the Christian Research Institute.