[annalex]

I think you mean that dogma is not possible because we just don't have the records to prove anything. Is that close?

Not at all, -- where are your getting this? Dogma is possible precisely because the Church possesses the Holy Tradition with which it can understand the inspired Scripture. It is with Sola Scriptura that dogma is not possible.

[Forest Keeper]

FK: "I think you mean that dogma is not possible because we just don't have the records to prove anything. Is that close?"

Not at all, -- where are your getting this?

I think it was from your statement "... Holy Tradition was committed to writing in a non-Canonical way as the patristic legacy, the hymnody and the iconography." I took "non-canonical" to mean "less official" and I surmised it was because there were not enough reliable records for them to be Canonical. I guess I just misunderstood, and I shouldn't have used the word "possible" the way I did.