Sufficiency does not mean barely enough ... barely enough would be a proper subset of all that is sufficient. Everything I need for life and godliness has already been given to me ... through the knowledge of Him ... which knowledge is contained in the scriptures ... in this nothing is lacking, ... that is very far from "barely enough."
He gives with both hands, offering untold blessings that sola scriptura flings back in His face.
Hows that?
Sufficient or not, it’s not all there is, and it’s not all that God wants you to have.
If you need more than what is contained in the scriptures, that is a slap in His face.
What specifically is it that He wants me to have that is not in the scriptures?
“Sufficiency does not mean barely enough”
So you say. In practice, however, the very core of sola scriptura is, “This is enough, in my human judgment. I reject everything more.”
“Everything I need for life and godliness has already been given to me”
Really? I call that pretty bold talk from somebody who falls short just like the rest of us.
But there again you’re saying, “I can get by on $400 a week, so God can take his $10 million a week and keep it.”
God isn’t stingy. He doesn’t want you to refuse all but one part of the blessings He offers.
“... through the knowledge of Him ... which knowledge is contained in the scriptures ... in this nothing is lacking, ...”
I’m not sure, but you seem to be stringing together quotations from something to make them seem to mean something they don’t. The first phrase is found in 2 Peter 1:3. The others are in neither the Douay-Rheims nor the King James.
Sola scriptura is supported nowhere in any valid version of the Bible.
“that is very far from “barely enough.”
Compared to what God offers it’s eking out salvation on a shoestring. It’s tightrope walking after refusing a safety net. It’s pride.
“How’s that?”
Do you suppose that everything Jesus ever said, ever taught, is recorded in the Bible? Have you checked to see just how much of His speech is in there? At the last supper, for instance, He said nothing of import that isn’t reported in the Gospels? Really?
Things are passed down by word of mouth. Things are made clear by the Holy Spirit, Our Lord, Our Lady, and the saints. Protestants accept about 2% of what there is to know about Christianity.
“If you need more than what is contained in the scriptures, that is a slap in His face.”
Buncombe. We all fall short, and therefore need every blessing that God dispenses. Further, if God wishes to bless us, who are you to say you don’t need what He offers?
“What specifically is it that He wants me to have that is not in the scriptures?”
There is a scriptural basis for everything Catholic that you reject. It is only a tendentious and self-serving reading of the scriptures that allows people to think otherwise.
One of the most important things He wants you to have is access to 2,000 years of the intellectual work product of the brightest, holiest men that the world has produced. You might start by chipping away at the surface of that.
As G. K. Chesterton wrote, “There is no other case of one continuous intelligent institution that has been thinking about thinking for two thousand years. Its experience naturally covers nearly all experiences; and especially nearly all errors. The result is a map in which all the blind alleys and bad roads are clearly marked, all the ways that have been shown to be worthless by the best of all evidence: the evidence of those who have gone down them.”
There is absolutely no way that any single human being could develop, in a single lifetime, one one-millionth of the understanding that is to be found in Catholic writings.