Of course, we agree that God's Word is true. But those two passages do not claim that Scripture *alone* is our authority.
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I have found Scripture consistently true and consistent with the construct that
SCRIPTURE IS MORE THAN SUFFICIENT TRUTH TO
ENABLE ME
TO RELATE ETERNALLY WITH GOD INTIMATELY
AND
WITH OTHERS AS I WOULD PREFER TO BE RELATED TO.
. . . except that it seems to take a life time of practice to get there wholesale.
I THINK my postings on authority have been somewhat clear.
Regardless of any context one is in . . . the bottom line ends up . . . one is responsible to GOD AND GOD ALONE.
When we face God, it will not wash that we blame earthly authority for our failings.
And, if one really doubts that GOD'S WORD directly and via His Spirit are inadequate to be supreme, sufficient, efficacious . . . then I suggest that such doubts have nothing to do with reality or with proper Godly authority but instead come from the pit of hell.