[HarleyD]

The "logic" of the Catholic Church never ceases to amaze me. Arguing against Sola Scriptura is just another rant against the very foundation of the church. Jerome and other great Christian father purposely set aside the scriptures as "inspired" and "inerrant" writings. Catholics have rejected this view assigning other such writings to the same status.

Clement of Alexandria (150?-213?), “They that are ready to spend their time in the best things will not give over seeking for truth until they have found the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves,”

Origen (185? - 252), “No man ought, for the confirmation of doctrines, to use books which are not canonized Scriptures,”

Athanasius (300? - 375),i.“The Holy Scriptures, given by inspiration of God, are of themselves sufficient toward the discovery of truth. (Orat. adv. Gent., ad cap.) The Catholic Christians will neither speak nor endure to hear anything in religion that is a stranger to Scripture; it being an evil heart of immodesty to speak those things which are not written,”

If only Athanasius could see what's happening now.

Mat_15:6b ... So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.

[GonzoII]

"Arguing against Sola Scriptura is just another rant against the very foundation of the church."

Can you show me that in the historical record of the Scriptures, HarleyD?

[GonzoII]

"If only Athanasius could see what's happening now."

Mat_15:6b ... So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.

St. Athanasius held to both Sacred Tradition and Scripture:

""But after him (the devil) and with him are all inventors of unlawful heresies, who indeed refer to the Scriptures, but do not hold such opinions as the saints have handed down, and receiving them as the traditions of men, err, because they do not rightly know them nor their power" Athanasius, Festal Letter 2 (c. A.D. 350).

Origen was a man of Tradition too:

""The Church's preaching has been handed down through an orderly succession from the Apostles and remains in the Church until the present. That alone is to be believed as the truth which in no way departs from ecclesiastical and apostolic tradition." Origen, First Principles 1,2 (c. A.D. 230). "

As was Clement of Alexandria:

""Well, they preserving the tradition of the blessed doctrine derived directly from the holy apostles, Peter, James, John, and Paul, the sons receiving it from the father (but few were like the fathers), came by God’s will to us also to deposit those ancestral and apostolic seeds. And well I know that they will exult; I do not mean delighted with this tribute, but solely on account of the preservation of the truth, according as they delivered it. For such a sketch as this, will, I think, be agreeable to a soul desirous of preserving from loss the blessed tradition" (Miscellanies 1:1 [A.D. 208]). "

[NKP_Vet]

“Sola Scriptura”

Show me in the Bible where the word Sola Sciptura is mentioned. Tradition came WAY BEFORE words were put in print, by the Catholic Church I might add.