You don't even know what scripture is apart from the teaching of the Catholic Church. Who do you think collected the New Testament books and declared that they were inspired?
"I would not believe in the Gospel were it not for the authority of the Catholic Church" -- Augustine of Hippo.
Stronger still, who WROTE the New Testament books?
Fathers of the Cahtolic Church.
Only an opinion by a man whom some think "brilliant." Augustine's mind was also beset by the terrors of an empire collapsing around him, and as a member of the Roman aristocracy, he had a need for any order even if it was false.
Augustine cites as proof for our constant need of God's grace the case of a man who had been faithful and pious for his entire life and then left his wife in old for a much younger woman. Augustine felt that the man had fallen from God's grace. A brain scan would probably have revealed that the man was suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy.
A writer's ideas should be interpreted within the times in which he lived and wrote.