“so what you are saying is scripture alone, doesn’t mean only scripture? If it doesn’t mean that then we understand everything the same way, and sola scriptura is nonsense.”
Scripture itself defines other lesser authorities, as noted in previous post. It means the only infallible and unchangeable authority - Truth directly from God and written down - is the standard by which lesser changeable authorities and their leadership and teaching are judged.
So you don’t believe sola scriptura. Me either
As I said, then you don’t believe sola scriptura (latin for scripture alone). We have no argument then.
In Christian Bibles, the New Testament Gospels were derived from oral traditions in the second half of the first century CE. Riches says that:
Scholars have attempted to reconstruct something of the history of the oral traditions behind the Gospels, but the results have not been too encouraging. The period of transmission is short: less than 40 years passed between the death of Jesus and the writing of Mark’s Gospel. This means that there was little time for oral traditions to assume fixed form.[21]
In other words the NT came from oral tradition. Say a prayer of thanks for the Catholics who compiled the canon of scripture and are today part of your Christian family rather than bashing them.
My family is very mixed, one grandmother was Catholic, the rest of them are hardcore Southern Baptist, one of my brothers is an ordained minister, my wife’s family is Italian/German and Catholic, her father was an altar boy.
I honestly think you and I don’t really have anything to argue about. Have a great day.