Here Paul says that the Scriptures are "profitable," not that ONLY the Scriptures are profitable---the former must be read into the biblical text, as you have done here. Also, "profitable" is certainly not equivalent to "numerically sufficient." Try again.
Yes, "traditions of men" such as sola scriptura, which was unheard of in Church history prior to the 16th-century Protestant Rebellion.
Please cite a single biblical text that actually teaches any such thing.
The apostles themselves taught that Apostolic Tradition is also the Christian's authority regarding the truths of God" (2 Thess. 2:15; 3:6; 1 Cor. 11:2, 23; 2 Tim. 1:13; Titus 1:9). Therefore, Scripture simply cannot be, as you claim, "the Christian's SOLE and FINAL authority," which Scripture itself nowhere teaches, or even implies.
That is correct. It is hard for you to understand?But presently, in Christ, there is neither Jew nor gentile?
Did I say that he was not part of "any church"?
He was the first member of a NEW CREATURE.
In fact, it is a tradition invented by men during the 16th-century Protestant Rebellion, and which was unknown before that time.
The authority of the Scriptures is not in dispute between Catholics and Protestants. Both sides wholeheartedly affirm the divine authority of the Bible. What Catholics dispute is the Protestant's claim that ONLY the Bible possesses divine authority. Again, the Bible itself teaches otherwise. The Bible being authoritative is one thing (and we agree entirely on that point); the Bible being the ONLY authority is another matter entirely (and this we must reject as an unbiblical tradition of men).
Says that Scripture is "inspired" (Greek, theopneustos: "God-breathed"), divinely authoritative---NOT that ONLY the Bible possesses divine authority. This text in no way teaches sola scriptura. [SOURCE]
Again, this text affirms the divine authority of Scripture (which Catholics also affirm), but it nowhere even hints at the supposed numerical sufficiency of Scripture (which sola scriptura asserts). Again, this text in no way teaches sola sriptura.
As with your two previous proof-texts, this one merely speaks of the divine authority of the Tanach (Old Testament). It says nothing whatsoever, though, about any supposed numerical sufficiency of Scripture. Catholics agree with the former, but have never accepted the latter, since [1] It is nowhere taught in Scripture itself, and [2] it violates the teaching of Scripture itself.
Yes, we are to live according to the "word" (message) of God, in whatever form it happens to take, whether written or spoken (2 Thess. 2:15). And God's "word" (message), in whatever form, carries divine authority. On this, Catholics and Protestants fully agree. But the notion that ONLY the written word of God is authoritative is merely a tradition created by men during the 16th-century Protestant Revolt.
Note that man is to live "by every word that proceeds from God's mouth"---not only by every written word from God. It is thus more than plain that Scripture itself nowhere teaches the Protestant assumption of sola scriptura, and in fact teaches precisely otherwise.
Now please cite the biblical text which states that "Now, the sole authority is the [written] Word of God."
Very true there are no more apostles. There are, however, the historical successors of the original apostles---the bishops---who possess the very same ecclesiastical and doctrinal authority as those apostles whose apostolic ministry the bishops were ordained to carry on throughout Christian history.
That is correct. Both have Jesus Christ as their foundation.
Jesus was speaking to Peter as the representative of the believers. Jesus did not appoint Peter chief otherwise the disciples should not be so often found squabbling over who was greatest.
christian church means just that. when Roman Catholics read the word "catholic" from early church writers & equate it to themselves would be like homosexuals reading someone from a hundred years ago using the word rainbow & equating it to themselves.
ask ivan panin
Peter never uses that kind of analogy for the 12 tribes.