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However, when you wish to convey your most important thoughts you WRITE THEM DOWN.

Where's that in the Bible?

2 Thessalonians 2:15
So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter.
Matthew 23:1-3
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: "The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. So you must obey them and do everything they tell you.
Matthew 18:17
If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

These passages don't seem to conform with Luther's doctrine of "the Bible alone."

I don't really know the details of Luther's doctrine, so I'm not going to try to defend Luther's doctrine.

Alot of this debate on "sola scripture" is a lawyereze way of defining what alone means. I don't believe I have used the phrase alone in the way that most Catholics wish to debate it. After all, as a minimum we needed Jesus to come, Diciples/Apostles to teach and write, believers to spread the gospel, and the Holy Spirit to guide. That makes four things, so in a lawyereze sense I agree with you, that isn't scripture alone.

But that is a side track to what I was trying to make a point of....when something is important, it gets written down. When you or any other Catholic wishes to prove their point, you reference the written words of people (Aquinas, Ignatius, Polycarp, etc.). Why did these people write it down? Because they thought it was important.

Isn't it logical then, that the earlist writings of the Apostles (the first Christians for that matter) is the most important ideas? These written ideas are what we call Scripture/New Testament.

The odd thing to me is the higher degree of importance that Catholics put on the written words of people hundreds of years after Christ, than on the written words of those people who witnessed and/or walked with Jesus.

Sincerely