You or the Joel Osteen crowd etc have absolutely no basis to authoritatively quote scripture. The canonical texts were put together ELEVEN centuries before the evil of the Protestant reformation that in Hillaire Belloc’s famous words have “spawned a cluster of heresies.”
If you know even the bare rudiments of historical theology, it was not until the Synod of Rome (382) and the Councils of Hippo (393) and Carthage (397) that we find a definitive list of canonical books being drawn up, and each of these Councils acknowledged the very same list of books. From this point on, there is in practice no dispute about the canon of the Bible, the only exception being the so-called Protestant Reformers, who entered upon the scene in 1517, an unbelievable 11 centuries later.
Once again, there are two fundamental questions for which one cannot provide answers that are consonant with Sola Scriptura:
(A) Who or what served as the final Christian authority up to the time that the New Testament’s canon was identified?
(B) And if there was a final authority that the Protestant recognizes before the establishment of the canon, on what basis did that authority cease being final once the Bible’s canon was established?
(C) And if there was no final authority before the canonical texts were put together then your Sola Scriptura must surely be fallible.
The muck of Protestantism is seen in deadly evil of Jim Jones and David Koresh, each purporting to interpret scripture with Divine guidance and just as bad is the rubbish and vapid interpretations provided by illiterate like the Billy Grahams, and Joel Osteens. This is why today no serious scholar or theologian takes Bible-Christianity serious. They can argue only in the shallowest of the shallow ends of the theological pool. All such folks do is to randomly use drive-by scriptural quotes, the very stuff of the neighborhood foursquare church pastors.
Well your religion did...It wrote the scriptures, didn't it???
Luk_24:44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
Your religion wrote that Jesus claims the Old Testament consists of the law, the prophets and psalms...That's the canon of the Old Testament...
But wait a minute...There are no deuteralcomicals in there...They are not part of the O.T. at all...And they certainly were not recognized by any of Israel...The Catholic version of the bible that includes those funny books then must be a farce...Wouldn't you say???
(B) And if there was a final authority that the Protestant recognizes before the establishment of the canon, on what basis did that authority cease being final once the Bible’s canon was established?
You mean the Catholic canon, of course...The real canon and the authority didn't disappear in spite of the attempts by your religion to destroy it...There's only one place you get that...From the preserved words of God in the scriptures...
(C) And if there was no final authority before the canonical texts were put together then your Sola Scriptura must surely be fallible.
Oh we have a final authority...It's one you don't recognize...
Psa 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Psa 12:7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
The Lord preserves his scripture...Those preserved words were being copied and passed around for 400 years before your religion got together to reject His words...
They don't teach you that in Catholic theology eh??? You don't get that with logic, common sense or philosophy...