[D-fendr]

Please read the link more. This is a compendium of orthodox theology, exegesis and what was taught in the Apostolic Church. Much more than practices and customs.

So I don’t see where we are crossing signals here. Please clarify if possible.

thanks for your reply.

[Diamond]

So I don’t see where we are crossing signals here. Please clarify if possible.

I did not mean to imply that St. John Damascene did not write about things other than practices and customs; only that in every case where he and the other early Fathers do refer to unwritten traditions it is always with respect to practices or customs, not doctrines.

My main point is that sola Scriptura is not antithetical to God establishing His Church, giving it authority, selecting his messengers and they selecting their replacements, and it is not a denial of the Church's authority to teach God's truth and it is not a denial that God's Word has been spoken.

The Church is the Bride of Christ, she does not rule over His Word. The Scriptures are the rule of faith for the Church, not the other way around. Everything that one must believe to be a Christian is found in Scripture and in no other source.

Cordially,