On a shelf gathering dust? Now, what is their purpose? Can you articulate that from a reformational standpoint?
I can articulate it from a biblical standpoint, and have done so earlier in the thread.
There is nothing wrong with a Creed as long as it is understood that that Creed is not authoritative absent the Scriptural backing.
I have stated earlier that if a Statement of Faith is just a way to pull together various BIBLICAL doctrines in a convenient way - I have no problem with it. It’s when it becomes more than that that I have a problem with it.
The scholars you have quoted, and you yourself, appear to raise it higher than just an organizational device for what is already found in Scripture. I have a problem with that, and I believe the Reformers would too. They were not creating new Scripture. They were articulating what was already there.