You see your own error. No need for me to point it out.
If your way of reason + scripture worked = common doctrine, we wouldn’t be disagreeing.
Your position fails and has failed; it continues to fail. It is unreasonable to expect that which transcends reason to be known using reason alone.
It’s called a category error.
thanks for your reply.
Error? You wish. Axioms are your friend. Only God can be infallible. That’s the premise of Sola Scriptura. We don’t trust man. We trust God.
Speaking of circular reasoning, you have not responded to my riddle yet. Is that because your circle is so much faultier than mine? You have no escape from an a priori exercise of private judgment. Offer a solution. I’m all ears.
“It is unreasonable to expect that which transcends reason to be known using reason alone.”
So why do you suppose God, who knew all this, gave us the Holy Spirit? Sola Scriptura reads its own Bible, and finds the need for God to help us. Just not some fallible guy in Italy with no valid claim to act as a substitute for the Holy Spirit (plus Scripture) in the life of a believer.
Nice try though.
Peace Bro.