“Your dispute is with the Early Church Fathers quoted. Your refusal, or inability to respond is very telling.”
Is it! I suppose you believe I can’t respond? Most people here would argue that point, Old R. However, you should understand that a number of the Fathers you quoted wrote before the canon was finally determined and not one of the Fathers you quoted accepted what Western Protestants call the canon of scripture. I can go on and take up bandwidth. I trust that won’t be necessary. In a nutshell, Old R, Sola Scriptura is not at all patristic, but since it is a Protestant Doctrine, I should think that an argument can be made for its validity quite apart from the Fathers. And indeed those arguments are made everyday right here. Arguing that the Fathers supported and held to the sola scriptura notion is as laughable, and frankly sort of sad, as the Latins proof texting the Fathers to support Papal Supremacy and Infallibility.
I love your tag line, Old R! :)
However, you should understand that a number of the Fathers you quoted wrote before the canon was finally determined and not one of the Fathers you quoted accepted what Western Protestants call the canon of scripture.
From the link you apparently didn't read:
OBJECTION: The proposition Sola Scriptura contradicts church history, in that it was not possible for the earliest Christians to consult the New Testament, since it had not yet been written.
REPLY: The earliest Christians had the Apostles with them. The Apostles wrote down the revelation, so that it might be available when they were gone.
You have the choice of ignoring all the writings of the Early Church Fathers. Fine with me.
Arguing that the Fathers supported and held to the sola scriptura notion is as laughable, and frankly sort of sad, as the Latins proof texting the Fathers to support Papal Supremacy and Infallibility.
And Perpetual Virginity? And the Bodily Assumption of Mary? And the Trinity?
Are you of the opinion the testimony of the Fathers is useless?
"In a nutshell, Old R, Sola Scriptura is not at all patristic,..."
Yet you make no effort whatsoever to respond to even one of the quoted Fathers????? I understand....the testimony of the Fathers is useless unless, of course, you agree with them.
The link one more time (the third) in the event you have a serious purpose, not simply bombast.