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Okay... so: where does the word "ALONE" appear in that verse? You do remember that the word "ALONE" is the bone of contention (in the sense that the Scriptures ALONE are all one needs for all this), right?

NOPE...The word 'alone' doesn't have to be there for it to be scripture 'alone'...Yet a student of the bible can see scripture 'alone' every where he/she looks...

Same with the Trinity...You can't find the word in there but you can see the Trinity all over the place...

And now you might want to try that with 'Catholic Church'...You can't find the words in the bible for that either...The big difference is no matter how hard or often you look, 'Catholic Church' ain't in there...Neither is 'pope'...Neither is 'mediatrix' or any of that other goofy stuff your religion made up...

Merely having the Scriptures is no "bullet-proof guarantee" of salvation; one can still have them, and suffer destruction. More is needed... and the Bible clearly lists many of these additional necessities: love (1 Corinthians 13), perseverence/endurance (Matthew 10:22 and 24:13), corporal works of mercy (Matthew 25:31-46), and dozens more.

Well you got one right...The BIBLE is the key...

NOPE...The word 'alone' doesn't have to be there for it to be scripture 'alone'...

It does, if you're using "Scripture ALONE". If you're looking outside of Scripture to prove "Scripture alone", then you've violated "Scripture alone" (since you're using something else. This is plain logic.

Yet a student of the bible can see scripture 'alone' every where he/she looks...

Hm... I'm a student of the Bible, and I don't see "sola Scriptura" anywhere (except in the wrong-headed writings of those who believe in it)... so your claim seems to be false. Or are you suggesting that I'm not a "real" student of the Bible (or a "real" Scotsman, for that matter)?

Same with the Trinity...You can't find the word in there but you can see the Trinity all over the place...

The Blessed Trinity can be deduced from the Scriptures beyond reasonable doubt... but it cannot be done by "Scripture ALONE". Without an infallible authority to give approbation to one's Scriptural conclusion, it remains mere opinion and/or guesswork, and a mere game of probabilities.

And now you might want to try that with 'Catholic Church'...You can't find the words in the bible for that either...

If I were an adherent of "sola Scriptura", that would certainly be a big problem! Fortunately, I don't subscribe to that unbiblical error, so the lack of this-or-that article of the Faith on the face of the Sacred Text isn't a problem.

The big difference is no matter how hard or often you look, 'Catholic Church' ain't in there...

The "One Church of Christ" is certainly there; it's called "Catholic" because it's universal (not tied to nationality, open to all who accept Her teachings, etc.). Christ founded ONE Church, 2000 years ago; He did not found thousands of splinter-groups in the time of Luther (and beyond). The Catholic Church is the only Church Who has lived from that time; all others came into being in later centuries (and the overwhelmingly vast majority of them in the past 500 years).

Neither is 'pope'...

St. Peter is certainly there, I think. Read Isaiah 22, and the account of Eliakim, and compare it to Matthew 16:18ff.

Neither is 'mediatrix' or any of that other goofy stuff your religion made up...

:) FRiend, Protestant fundamentalists are hardly in a good position to criticize anyone else for "making things up". You've taken a great deal of time to skid around the idea that "sola Scriptura" IS NOT IN SCRIPTURE... and "sola fide" is even worse, since St. James flatly condemns it in James 2:24! BTW: "mediatrix" is simply the feminine form of "mediator", and all who pray for others are mediators... dependent on the One Mediator Who is Christ (without Whom none of our prayers would be of any use at all). It's not a "magic word".

Well you got one right...The BIBLE is the key...

(??) FRiend, did you even READ the paragraph to which you responded, here? Your reply has no connection to it, whatsoever...