I’m sure you guys think you’re being oh so cute with that graphic. However, Sola Scriptura doesn’t mean that anyone can intrpret the Bible for themself. Rather, it means that the Bible is the only infallible and inerrant authority for Christian faith, and that it contains all knowledge necessary for salvation and holiness. It isn’t a denial of other authorities governing Christian life and devotion. Rather, it simply demands that all other authorities are subordinate to, and are to be corrected by, the written word of God.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sola_scriptura
Let’s leave out the theological debates.
A distinction without a difference.
Nonsense. The Christian Bible didn't even exist prior to about A.D. 360. All they had before that period was the Jewish Torah and the oral teaching passed down from the Lord to the Apostles and from them to the Pope and bishops in union with him.
"There was no canon of scripture in the early Church; there was no Bible. The Bible is the book of the Church; she is not the Church of the Bible. It was the Church -- her leadership, faithful people -- guided by the authority of the Spirit of Truth which discovered the books inspired by God in their writing. The Church did not create the canon; she discerned the canon. Fixed canons of the Old and New Testaments, hence the Bible, were not known much before the end of the 2nd and early 3rd century"1.