“You wrote that Sola Scriptura is “in the text.” I assume there is not a text but rather it is a doctrine that developed later. I wonder when and by whom the term was coined ?”
The term is not in the text. The term Trinity isn’t either. The teaching of both is “in the text.”
“No names; I guess that includes all 30,000 or so denominations and sects, possibly a few cults, which puts us right back in the problem of church anarchy. If a person “trusts himself to His sacrifice alone for salvation” he might go to any of those, or even the cults unless he gets someone to name names for him. “
No cult is comprised of believers who entrusted themselves to His sacrifice alone. It can include any denomination or no denomination. It can include a handful of illiterate natives in the darkest jungle who get together to pray and worship. They are his and gathered. It can be a “house church” or a gathering in a movie theater on Sunday. If they are His and gathered, they are a gathering.
No need for special uniforms, candles, beads, etc.
It also includes many Catholics.
Unfortunately the cults do seduce and corrupt believers who had entrusted themselves to His sacrifice alone. By your definition of a church, do they comprise a church within a church, or just a church ?
It can include any denomination or no denomination. It can include a handful of illiterate natives in the darkest jungle who get together to pray and worship. They are his and gathered. It can be a “house church” or a gathering in a movie theater on Sunday. If they are His and gathered, they are a gathering.