What is your extrinsic evidence for this? Show me the verse apart from John Calvin’s Institutes on the Christian Religion, which invented this whole notion.
The Bible is not exactly plain and easy for just anyone.
Explain to me for example why Martin Luther was unbiblical when he taught baptismal regeneration without appealing to the Bible.
We can play Bible bingo all night, but it still comes back to your personal TRADITION of biblical hermaneutics.
When I was a Lutheran, I was taught Sola Scriptura, but our interpretation of the Bible alone was radically different than what Evangelicals believe.
Do you think you are personally infallible when you interpret the Bible?
The Catholic Church venerates those specks of truth and the remnants of God’s original revelation to Adam where they make themselves present.
So the fact Muslims are monotheists and venerate Abraham is commendable, but it ends there.
John 14:17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.
John 15:26 But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.
It’s the scripture which was intended to “make us wise unto salvation”. Do you think God wouldn’t make it possible to follow His only inspired word with the “testimony” of the Holy Spirit?
2 Timothy 3:15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
The gospel is “made manifest” or made known to all nations “by the scriptures of the prophets”. Not by interpretations of men.
Romans 16:26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith: