“I think to be a Protestant, you have to be able to just say “it doesn’t make sense but that’s ok.”
She nailed it.
It has been said of Bible-Christians that they can only swim in the shallow waters of the theological debate. Take them to the deep end of the pool and they drown.
It is the Church that infallibly assembled the books in the Bible in the Synod of Rome in AD 382. The books did not fall from the skies and self assemble themselves. That infallible authority to decide what is the true Word of God did not evaporate ELEVEN centuries later with the curse of the Reformation. This what the brilliant essayist Hillaire Belloc says of Protestantism in his superb book “Great Heresies,” that “unlike other heresies, Protestantism spawned a cluster of heresies.”
The Church also carries with it the great oral traditions in its sacred liturgies and rituals. The written word of God did not disappear not the ether.
As John puts it in 21: 25
“But there are also many other things which Jesus did; which, if they were written every one, the world itself, I think, would not be able to contain the books that should be written.”
The “but’ her is important. It means do not rely exclusively on sola scriptura.
It nice to know that at least one Southern Baptist have finally come to her
The wisdom of God can satisfy the greatest intellectual and the dumbest laborer. He speaks to the heart (which, per Pascal, "has its reasons which Reason knows nothing of).