Obviously, Scott Hahn had to go through a tremendous change in his way of thinking in order to convert to Catholicism. But he never tells us how he came to that new way of thinking, or how we can, or even why we should think that way, too. Instead, he just presents the same arguments from his new Catholic perspective and expectes Protestants to just "get it." But we don't get it. see my reply to xzins in post #20 on this thread. it looks like we have finally come to some sort of agreement, namely, that there are extra-scriptural principles that inherently affect one's reading of scripture, and to the conclusions one will come to when reading scripture. these extra-scriptural principles, if true, lead to a true understanding of scripture, and, if false, lead to a false understanding of scripture. that there are extra-scriptural factors that affect one's reading of scripture is trivially obvious, but the principle of 'sola scriptura' does not account for these and thus leads its practitioner into crisis
***that there are extra-scriptural factors that affect one's reading of scripture is trivially obvious, but the principle of 'sola scriptura' does not account for these and thus leads its practitioner into crisis***
The principle of sola scriptura IS one of those extra-scriptural principles that affects how we read the text. It's not a crisis -- it's just the the lens through which a Protestant views the Bible.