In her book,
Misguided by Mormonism, Protestant
Christina Darlington made the following startling admission:
. . . Christians often look for a verse from
the Bible that teaches that the canon of Scripture was closed at Revelation—the final
book of the New Testament. Unfortunately, this Scripture does not exist . . .
no Scripture speaks of the fact that the canon of Scripture was closed with the
writing of the last book of the Bible. (Christina R. Darlington, Misguided by Mormonism But Redeemed by God’s
Grace: Leaving the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for Biblical
Christianity [2d ed.; 2019], 234, 235)
This is an
important admission, though the implications are not spelt out by Darlington,
and for good reason—if she were to be honest, she would then have to admit that
the belief that special revelation ceased with the inscripturation of the final
book of the New Testament is an extra-biblical tradition and a tradition one must
privilege as authoritative in order to support such a doctrine, and, of course,
such would be an explicit rejection of the formal sufficiency of the Bible!
Furthermore,
in this section of her book, Darlington, to her credit, admits that Rev
22:18-19 is not support for Sola
Scriptura:
In context, Revelation 22:18-19 refers to the
book of Revelation, not to the Bible as a whole. (Ibid., 235)
Of course,
Darlington appeals to texts such as 1 Cor 4:6 and other texts to support the
formal sufficiency of the Bible. For my book-length refutation of this
doctrine, see:
For more articles refuting Darlington's book, see:
Listing of Responses to Christina R. Darlington's "Misguided by Mormonism"