“And the part YOU’RE missing is the bible isn’t comprehensive enough to be the “final authority.”
And yet, for hundreds of years, we’ve been content to settle - or at least discuss - issues using the Bible as our ultimate authority.
What non-scriptural excuses are you writing about?
You call thousands of denominations "content?"
What non-scriptural excuses are you writing about?
A good example is all the rhetorical cartwheels that have to used to deny petrine supremacy.
The unsolvable problem for protestants is they can't simultaneously claim anyone can interpret the scriptures while denying the catholic interpretation. Has it never occurred to you that the Matthew 16 passage doesn't make a peep about all the things protestants have to bring into the discussion to "understand" verse 18?
The closest protestants can get is insisting on goofy, non-scriptural, totally conjectural, conclusions that "disqualify" peter because he gets slapped down soon after.