RE: if you see no devotional value of icons as part of your spiritual path, don’t do it.
Well, I’m glad we have Christian liberty on this. But this is “tradition” in the Orthodox sense of the word, and correct me if I am wrong, if by Scripture plus Tradition, one means that the above Tradition is also part of the ULTIMATE requirement one must abide by, then here’s where the doctrine of Sola Scriptura clashes with Scripture + Tradition.
Your above statement seems to be telling us that you don’t consider the devotion of icons ( an Orthodox tradition ) as BINDING to Christians. In what sense then is this not in support of Sola Scriptura?
For starters, I don’t really think that anyone really follows Sola Scriptura, even if they say they do. That is just a personal view. I avoid taking up the cross of defining what someone must do as a Christian. The most I will do is to say whether someone appears to be following Orthodoxy. And from the outside, I have no idea where that individual’s heart is.