I guess I should explain a little more so you don’t quote the same verses. Acts 17:11 has the Bereans testing what was said against Old Testament books. Testing things in one way doesn’t mean it’s the only way. You’d have to be reading into the text (eisogesis) to come away that this was the only way to confirm anything. Next 1 Co 4:6 not going beyond what is written, if this is to be interpreted in a wooden literal way as only ever looking to what is written, well you’re gonna have to dismiss a lot of what Scripture itself says because Jesus never wrote anything down, he quoted and upheld God inspired oral tradition (MT 23:2 Jesus upheld the seat of Moses, the God inspired teaching upheld via oral tradition down through the ages which the Jewish leaders maintained), or how Paul taught the Ephesians night and day for 3 years yet only gave them one letter that he could have said in one day, or you’re gonna have to ignore all those moments in Scripture that communicate any oral teaching or at least reduce all oral teaching to only reiterations of what was written, “For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God” 1 Thess.2:13.
Last, MK 7:6-9, do you know what “tradition” is? The word tradition means to pass on or hand down. The source of tradition is important to know because it’ll either be God or men. In MK 7 Jesus points out a tradition stemming from men, which doesn’t condemn all tradition, but just this particular tradition with the source as coming from men. Consider a tradition with a source as coming from God “Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle” (1 Thess 2:15). The apostle’s word here is said to be the word of God (1 Thess 2:13). It may be hard to grasp depending on your background or Bible version but in some versions Protestant Bible translations have been very deceiving where they translate “tradition” as “tradition” in negative contexts, but then translate “tradition” as something else like teaching in positive contexts, making it appear as if tradition is always negative and man centered, when this is clearly not the case.
But back to my question, what verses do you have that speak of “sola”?
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