We don't believe in Sola Scriptura. We do believe in Prima Scriptura, however. There is a difference. By accepting sola Scriptura, one chooses to make himself the infallible interpreter of Scriptures, which clearly makes very little sense. We are dealing with God's Word, not on scientific theories and why the Dolphins lost last week's football game.
If anyone believes that Christianity is a religion of revelation, then it strikes me as odd that people rely on themselves to decide what this revelation is. We are servants to God's Word, not the other way around. The Rheims Bible has the following censure and approbation:
We come to the understanding of Scriptures through the poverty of spirit; where a man must show himself meek-minded, lest by stubborn contentions, he become incapable and unapt to be taught.
It continues in the Preface:
Only (saith he) the art of Scripture is that which every man challenges. This the chatting old wise, this the doting old man, this the brabbling (hair-splitting, quarrelsome arguments), sophister, this on every hand, men presume to teach before they learn it. St. Jerome.
And again
...who stepping from secular learning to holy scriptures, and able to tickle the ears of the multitude with a smooth tale, think all they speak, to be the Law of God. St. Jerome.
Apparently, the problem of interperting the meaning of Scriptures by the individual self-proclaimed expert is not a new problem. False teachers remain.
Regards
And this is why it becomes more clear each day that the RCC truly and actively denies the work of the Holy Spirit and hands over that responsibility to its magisterium.
The fact that some men may misinterpret the word of God does not negate the fact that individuals are called to read and study the Bible, knowing they will be led by the Holy Spirit in all truth and light if it is the will of God to so lead them.
"Search the Scriptures."
I don't see any postscript saying only the priestcraft can search and thus interpret Scripture.
"And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?" -- Mark 12:24
"These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so." -- Acts 17:11