Do you believe the Bible to be inspired? If so, is it because there are certain scriptures that declare the Bible to be inspired. Why would you believe those scriptures to be inspired? Because they are in the Bible? If you were to say yes to the last part, then that would be circular reasoning, which would prove nothing.
You have faith in sola scriptura, and other Christians have faith in the scriptures along with the Oral Tradition.
Oral Tradition can be boiled down to circular reasoning, too. So you have your faith and they have their faith, but in the end, “Without faith it is impossible to please God, for they that come to God must believe [by faith] that He exists and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."
This is what happens when another body of teachings are made equal with what God has spoken.
Jesus made it clear that the Bible was in a class of its own, exalted above 'all' religious traditions..... He rebuked the Pharisees not because they didn’t understand tradition, but for not accepting Scripture as the ultimate authority...... They negated the final authority the Word of God BY their religious traditions..... Their tradition made the word of God to have no effect. (Mk.7)...For centuries the Catholic church stopped the people from reading the word and had them obey their traditions instead.
......The Bible emphatically condemns the use of tradition as a source of authority because whenever tradition is set up alongside of Scripture, it eventually competes for the greater position and replaces it...... It then is used to reinterpret Scripture...... This is what happened to Judaism in the days of Christ, and this is what has happened in the Roman Catholic Church. ...
The Bible no longer was their source for God. Mans opinions eventually replaced the apostles teachings, rituals replaced the substance and darkness fell over the land....
No one can trace oral tradition back to 'its source', so we can never be sure of its accuracy. Oral tradition becomes subject to the very leaders that gave it and we have to take their word for its accuracy.
The Pharisee’s claimed they alone had the right to interpret and enforce scripture, and that is when everything went wrong..... What the Catholic Church has done is require its members to listen to the Church who will tell them what they are to follow and what the word says..... They then become the sole interpreter of what God said...
.... On the contrary Jesus said He would give each believer the Holy Spirit who is the author of the word, to have us understand what was written (Jn. 2:20-21). (Exerts from Let us Reason)
One of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is discernment...discernment of spirits.
Tell me that when you read the Scriptures, Old and New, you don't discern the Holy Spirit's hand in it?