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Do we have ALL the Word of God available to us?

Yes -- Jesus Christ is the Word of God.

Note that the term Sola Scriptura as used by many on this forum is defined as expecting Scripture to contain bases for all theological truths and religious practices. To mean that we must be able to derive from Scripture alone all of the theological truths that God wished to reveal to mankind—and even all of the religious practices in which Christians should engage (i.e., that Scripture is "sufficient for faith and practice").

Note: you share with us all of the Church beliefs necessary for salvation: God exists; God is a Trinity; Jesus is God the Son; Jesus died on a cross for our sins; and we need to repent, believe, and be baptized to be saved—in other words, truths connected directly with the gospel.

Remember that the beliefs you and others may rail against are not truths necessary for salvation. Similarly in the Sola scriptura world we have places where the Bible clearly teaches many things that are not directly required for salvation. For example, it teaches the existence of angels. The reality of angels is not itself something that you need to know to get into heaven.

Let me ask you dying man knows that the Bible teaches the existence of angels but refuses to believe it. HE believes in the trinity, that Jesus Christ is Lord, God and Our Savior who died for Our sins on the cross and we need to repent, believe. Suppose he also knows that God is the author of the Bible and that God teaches the existence of angels, yet he still refuses to believe it. Does that man have faith in God? He may acknowledge God’s existence, he may want to be saved by God, but classical Protestant theologians would not say that a man who acknowledges God’s existence but refuses to accept what he knows to be God’s word has faith in God—certainly not saving faith