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thanks for your reply.

I disagree that sola scriptura fits being called a "performative contradiction". Of course, I still don't know what you even mean by the term.

You don't even know what the term means but you know sola scriptura doesn't fit it; and, later on, that something else does.

Ok...

The syntax: "Logic should also tell you..." would strongly indicate a performative contradiction is a term used in logic, reason, critical thinking…

Contradiction doesn't need to be explained; performative would indicate something to do with the performance of.

Scripture is the final authority for the truths of the Christian faith and is sufficient of itself to be this authority.

Since the "final authority" does not say it is the final authority nor sufficient of itself to be so, if you believe the statement to be true, it is false.

If you do it; it's undoes itself.

Performative. Contradiction.

Thanks for your courteous and thoughtful reply.

Very funny. I meant I still don't know what you mean by the term sola scriptura. And I still disagree that the term fits into what you call a performative contradiction. Even the Catholic Church declares that the Bible is Divinely inspired - God breathed - and is infallible and inerrant. My contention is simply that if they state this, then they cannot come back and assign infallibility to themselves, also. Scripture IS infallible and divinely inspired, so it is no contradiction to state that it is the authority for our faith. God obviously determined it to be here and God does not make mistakes and God did not assign the same authority for the Catholic Church - though they declare themselves as being so. Scripture is God's word to us whether you or I or anyone else believes it to be true. It IS, like God IS. Jesus certainly asserted the authority of Scripture numerous times as did the writers of Scripture. They recognized that the Holy Spirit was speaking through them and, as such, it is a lamp unto our feet, a light unto our path, pure, holy, eternal and trustworthy. My acknowledging the fact does not disprove it.