[Iscool]

We disagree about HOW to read Scripture, about what books are comprised in the term, about the ways to interpret, say, the Letter of James. One group makes a system which struggles to account for everything THIS way, and another, with the same intention and claims, comes up with a different account. BOTH groups say that the members of the other group haven't read Scripture correctly.

I don't see how the Scriptures are sufficient to resolve this.

It's not that difficult...You don't add 'Mary is the mother of God' and you don't take scripture like 'and upon this Rock I will build my church' and claim the Rock is Peter when the scripture is not clear on the statement...

Most problems come from people adding to or removing words from the scripture, or, just not believing what they read...

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— You don’t add ‘Mary is the mother of God’ and you don’t take scripture like ‘and upon this Rock I will build my church’ and claim the Rock is Peter when the scripture is not clear on the statement... -—

Many Protestants have studied the writings of the early Church Fathers in an effort to resolve these seeming ambiguities. Many of them have become Catholic.

[Petrosius]

… and you don't take scripture like 'and upon this Rock I will build my church' and claim the Rock is Peter when the scripture is not clear on the statement...

It is quite clear on the statement: Kepha (Peter) is the kepha (rock) on which Jesus will build his church. But more to the point, the two of us have a dispute over this and many other issues of the faith. Jesus commanded that we should go to the church, not merely search the Scriptures. Where is this church that we can submit this dispute?

Most problems come from people adding to or removing words from the scripture, or, just not believing what they read...

May I lend you a mirror?