That’s Solo Scriptura and it’s not what the reformers believed. This nonsense that Sola Scriptura is using the Bible alone needs to stop. Luther said "unless I am convinced by Scripture...". That simply means that all doctrine and beliefs must be supported by scripture. It doesn’t say that sources can’t be used to attempt to explain what scripture is saying. It’s just that whatever they teach must be supported by scripture. Actually Paul gave a great explanation of Sola Scriptura.
“They searched the scriptures daily to see if these things be true”. If a teaching cannot be found or supported in scripture it is not to be taken as God’s word for doctrine or dogma.
“That’s Solo Scriptura”
So then I do correctly understand Sola Scriptura.
“it’s not what the reformers believed.”
You’re telling me.
“This nonsense that Sola Scriptura is using the Bible alone needs to stop.”
That’s what it means. “Scripture Alone.” Not Scripture + Tradition.
“Luther said “unless I am convinced by Scripture...”. That simply means that all doctrine and beliefs must be supported by scripture.”
And what does the Catholic Church teach on this question? Let’s take a quick jaunt to the Catechism.
“For Holy Mother Church, relying on the faith of the apostolic age, accepts as sacred and canonical the books of the Old and the New Testaments, whole and entire, with all their parts, on the grounds that, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author, and have been handed on as such to the Church herself”
“Since therefore all that the inspired authors or sacred writers affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the Sacred Scriptures”
“It doesn’t say that sources can’t be used to attempt to explain what scripture is saying.”
Oh, ok. So Tradition is important too?
“If a teaching cannot be found or supported in scripture it is not to be taken as God’s word for doctrine or dogma.”
The Trinity isn’t in Scripture.