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I think, that unlike the Lutheran "Sola Scriptura", you imply that truth can be found outside the Bible as well. In this I agree. However, I would say that any truth found outside the bible cannot contradict the Bible. So reason must be tested with Scripture to discern real truth. Therefore, if the Lord himself says, I am the narrow path, I cannot believe otherwise.

I don't disagree with anything you said, but my point was more about ideas found explicitly in Scripture versus those that are more implicit. For instance, the Virgin Birth is flatly stated in Scripture. But the idea of the Trinity and that Jesus is God is implicit. (If you don't believe that, study the history of the Arian controversy: they were working from the same Scriptures and argued that Jesus was not God.)

...Jesus is God is implicit.

John 14:9 seems to make it pretty explicit.

Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou [then], Shew us the Father?