[BlueDragon]

No vladi, your overall, general thesis simple does not work, for reason that it must ignore what widespread agreement there can be among a great many so-called "Protestants", while needing to at the same time ignore what differences there are among themselves between papists in order to make it work.

When reading of those whom are referred to as Early Church Fathers, it is undeniable that is a range of opinion expressed -- yet most often also, unity as for essentials.

And how do we know what the essentials are, but that those were written.

[vladimir998]

“No vladi, your overall, general thesis simple does not work...”

Actually it works perfectly - unlike the Protestant doctrine of sola scriptura.