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Sola Scripture motivates Protestants because they do not want to follow the directions of the church Jesus organized. However, Jesus did not teach so la scripture. He anticipate the problems of people finding in scripture whatever they wanted to believe. For example, today, some "Christians" use so la scripture to promote sodomy and prenatal homicide.
Jesus understood that under any "religion of the book," his teachings would be lost in the anarchy of private self-justifying interpretations. For this reason, Christianity is a religion of the word, and the word is Jesus himself. His teachings are protected by the church, an actual human organization he authorized (see Matt 16:18-19, 18:18).
The church Jesus talked about in the NT continues to exist in the Catholic Church, the group given authority to "bind and loose" in interpreting scripture.
Cheers,
Bruce
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