Thanks for noticing the distinction, that I didn't say even that. Obviously we need the Holy Scripture since we refer to is constantly, and it is the Catholic Church that gave it to the world in the first place. You offered a hypothetical that wihtout the Scripture the Church would be nothing, and I corrected that by pointing out that it would simply replace the manner of the teaching but not the essence of it, since we still would have the same Sacred Tradition that was the foundation of the Scripture. And, of course, the sacraments of the Church -- the core if her function -- would not be affected at all.
annalex wrote:
“Thanks for noticing the distinction, that I didn’t say even that.”
You are welcome. I do try to read carefully what people say.
The rest of what you write in response to my original I reject utterly as nonsense. Again, say until you are blue in the face that the Catholic Church gave the Holy Scripture to the world. It only makes you look more arrogant and ignorant. Just as the stones would have cried out, “Hosanna, blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord,” on Palm Sunday had the people not, so too would the stones have taken pen in hand and Balaam’s ass as well, and published abroad the inspired gospels and epistles had men not.
Who do you think you are?