Hi, not disagreeing with you or anything. Just a thought. I was reading 2 Tim. 3:16 and wondered what you thought about didaskalian (teaching, doctrine). When Paul was writing this and he said that the Scriptures were profitable for making doctrine, he wasn't thinking that we wouldn't do so was he? I mean if he said we had a basis for making a doctrine, then he expected us to formulate propositional truth outside of Scripture, but based upon it. I admit that I have not followed all of the thread here, but it seems logical to me that Paul wrote that we should have teaching,doctrine that is not Scipture, but that is certainly Scriptural. Councils and confessions are just doing what Paul expected and told them to do!

If this is way off, sorry, I'm tired. It is more a response in line with yours to "Kathy."