But that's not what sola Scriptura means.
Nobody ever claimed that it is the only source of teaching.
It's the only source of truth and it is authoritative by its nature as the God breathed, Holy spirit inspired word of God.
2 Timothy 3:16-17All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
Think about the early Church.....there was no New Testament. No book to turn to when disputes arose as they invariably did. It had yet to be written....and certainly not compiled or canonized. The Church did just fine because the Church gave us Scripture and not vice versa. Ergo the Church could grow and function without it.
Wrong. It did fine because they already had Scripture in the OT, which Jesus Himself validated in His use of it and His calling it Scripture.
And the HOLY SPIRIT gave us Scripture, not the Catholic church.
And no, the church cannot do fine without Scripture. It WILL go into error without it as an anchor.
The early Church did fine, without recourse to the Old Testament. The dispute which arose at Antioch was about circumcision and was not settled by recourse to a book. The Old Testamant was of no use and the New Testament had not been written. Paul and Barnabas returned to Jerusalem to confer with the "apostles and ancients".
Well?
And the HOLY SPIRIT gave us Scripture, not the Catholic church.
So the two are mutually exclusive? Silly. A true dance with words. As if the Holy Spirit dropped it out of the sky. An imbecile can tell you that Scripture was written, compiled and canonized by men under the influence of the Holy Spirit. There was a defined period in Christian history when there was a Church and no New Testament. In fact, Paul's letters, many of which we now know as Scripture, were written precisely because of this. They were letters of instruction, written from an apostle, to nascent Christian churches, in the absence of any New Testament. The Christians in Ephesus and Corinth read them as such and not as Scripture. That came later when the Church compiled it.
Which makes the following statement of yours, ridiculous........
And no, the church cannot do fine without Scripture. It WILL go into error without it as an anchor.
You have it exactly, backwards. Congratulations! The reality is that Scripture, separated from Apostolic Tradition, will be used to teach error. As indeed it is.
Look around you. Look at what has happened since the Reformation! The cacophony of conflicting voices all using "Scripture" to justify their half-baked theology is overwhelming and can not be ignored. There's going to be a "rapture", the Bible sez so....no it doesn't. We're predestined by God....no we're not, we have free will...God wants you to be prosperous....no he doesn't.....etc, etc, etc.
These are not minor points of theology as you so flippantly claimed in a previous post. They are glaring errors and are a source of scandal!