[OLD REGGIE]

Then I guess we're screwed cause these are the same men who canonized and wrote the NT Scriptures. If you can't trust them, then you can't trust them.

These are the men you are speaking of?

2 Corinthians 11:
[13] For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

No my friend you are screwed if you trust the word of men without testing them from Scripture.

Acts 17:
11] Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessaloni'ca, for they received the word with all eagerness, examining the scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

On the other hand, if they claim "authority" . . . . . ?

[SoothingDave]

No my friend you are screwed if you trust the word of men without testing them from Scripture.

As usual, you miss the point. We have no way of knowing that Scripture is what it purports to be except by the testimony of the Church. That's the fatal flaw in Sola thinking. Everyone has to rely on men.

SD