As I have started to engage with more Protestants on the issue of Sola Scriptura. I have conducted an argument that supports Apostolic Succession. Which is the belief that there is a Normative Authority (the Canonical visible Church through the succession of bishops/popes) which is the means that God used in order to brings forth Doctrine, the Holy Scriptures and its Objective understanding and interpretation. Without the paradigm of Apostolic Succession, I claim the impossibility of the contrary (reductio ad absurdum). Which means without the Normative Authority of the Church via Apostolic Succession, there is no way to have intelligibility of the Canon of Scripture and an objective interpretation on said Scripture.
#1
The beginning of the argument starts off with recognizing that the Bible is not a book that consists of a single author. Rather, a compilation of many book with various authors over different periods of time (approx 40 authors over a span of 1500 years). Recognizing that the Bible is a compilation of books. The Bible requires as a prerequisite some type of compiler in order to get said Scripture.
Because of this reality, the argument is formed.
The Church is a necessary prerequisite for intelligibility of the Canon of Scripture.
If the Church as a necessary precondition is not met, a definite Canon is untenable and impossible (reductio ad absurdum).
#2
The nature of the statement that “The Scripture is the only infallible rule of faith for the Church” is in itself a loaded statement. Sola Scriptura as a proposition presupposes intelligibility of the Protestant 66 Book Canon. Which its paradigm can not give an account for.
Full exposit of the Problem of Sola Scriptura in Protestantism
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