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Please provide a more complete analysis supporting your conclusion. Stating your conclusion and then listing verses and declaring them to be underlying support is not analysis.

I was answering someone who asked for scriptural support, so I provided it. If you'd like it fleshed out, I'm happy to do so, but please don't act as if it were a hit-and-run.

2 Timothy 3:14-17 (16 being the central verse) teaches that scripture is sufficient without oral tradition. Here Paul says that all scripture is breathed out by God (to show its authority) and then goes on to say what it is used for: "for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness". And what is the result of the God-breathed scriptures being used for all those things? "[T]hat the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work".

The scriptures provide everything needed for the Christian to be "complete", and equipped for every good work.

Moving on... Acts 17:11 provides an example of where an Apostle wasn't simply taken at face value but had his teachings compared to the scriptures by the Bereans. They received the word he preached eagerly precisely because it was supported by the scriptures.

1 Corinthians 4:6 has Paul chiding the church of Corinth for developing sides or parties where the ministers were celebrities or representatives of the people. Some were siding with Paul while others with Apollos. Paul was telling the church not to become puffed up with pride for belonging to one faction or another but sticking to what was written, either by Paul in his letters or by the Old Testament scriptures, depending on how you look at it. Paul was telling the people to stick to what was written, not to build their faith upon a man but on the word of God.

Lastly, in Mark 7:6-9 (actually following to vs. 13), we find the Pharisees and Scribes questioning Jesus and His disciples for not adhering to the traditions of the Jewish elders by washing their hands before eating. Jesus confronts them about their hypocrisy by doing what seems good for the sake of appearances while ignoring the word of God. Jesus condemns them specifically for their adherence to the traditions of men while trampling on God's holy word. He specifically called out their practice allowance for refusing to give monetary support to poor parents--thus allowing them to starve--while claiming that their money was dedicated to God, in direct violation of the 5th commandment. Jesus thrashed the "holy" Scribes and Pharisees for rejecting the authority of scripture for the authority of their own traditions that they had passed down.

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Sola Scriptura is a doctrine invented by the Reformers more than Fifteen Centuries after Jesus Christ lived. Why would Almighty God hide this critical aspect of humanity's salvation from us for over Fifteen Centuries?

He would not. The mere suggestion that he might defies all logic and reason, and God is the Author of both.

If you were more familiar with the Reformation, you'd realize that the Reformers were reforming the Church (as they saw it), not creating a new one in their own image. They believed they were going back to the scriptures and the teachings of the early church before Rome corrupted the faith through adding on tradition after tradition that didn't comport to the scriptures and added burdens on God's people that they weren't commanded by God to bear.

Sola Scriptura was taught as a return to the very word of God as the sole authority for life and faith. They believed that tradition, while having its place, was subservient to the revealed word of God from the Old Testament and the doctrines of the Apostles that were eventually codified in writing. They would point back to early church fathers like Irenaeus and Tertullian who went to the scriptures to fight against Gnostic heresy, not tradition.

Here's a quote to leave you with, and I hope this diatribe has satisfied your request for analysis.

“We have learned from none others the plan of our salvation, than from those through whom the gospel has come down to us, which they did at one time proclaim in public, and, at a later period, by the will of God, handed down to us in the Scriptures, to be the ground and pillar of our faith” -Irenaeus (130 AD - 202 AD)