Thanks be to God!
Days like today are what all this contentiousness is worth. You have kindly responded that oral transmission of information is not as accurate as written documents. You have acknowledged that the Scriptures are God Breathed. You have acknowledged that the writings of those theologians that came after the Scriptures were written did not write God Breathed documents. In your honest answers you have illustrated why Scripture must stand Alone .
For example, from the Fathers we see that the Church was highly hierarchical and sacramental; that salvation was understood as a process rather than one time event; that veneration of saints was encouraged by the Church.
You have given a great example of what happens when you value the opinions of those who came later rather than Scripture.
Why would the opinions of these theologians have any greater weight than the opinions of theologians who came even later? In both cases we are looking at uninspired writings and opinion. It would seem the most rational, serious, sober approach would be to measure what their opinions were against the one source we know is God Breathed, the Scriptures.
LOL. AMEN!
What's that about a broken clock? 8~)
The Catohlic Church teaches that the Scirpture is God breathed, holy and inerrant. Why does it excite you so? This does not make the Sola Scriptura any less of a silly superstition that it is.
Why would the opinions of these theologians have any greater weight than the opinions of theologians who came even later?
Because they were nearer to the source of the teachings of Christ, both written down and not.