Mike wrote:
Funny thing about creeds. They often say more about the writers than they do about the gospel.
A curious thing about creeds and confessions is that they reveal quite a lot about 'readers' too, when they express their views of them.It seems from some statements today that many "expert readers" believe that the truth was not found until recent modern times.
Sola Scriptura does not mean the believer cannot discern the truth and write it down - in any century.
WCF 1
"All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all;a yet those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed, for salvation, are so clearly propounded and opened in some place of Scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them.b"
a. 2 Pet 3:16.
b. Psa 119:105, 130.