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How do we know all of the above?In Galatians chapter 2, Paul rebuked Peter using the oral teaching of the gospel. Not quite sola scriptura. Jesus isn't recorded as telling his apostles to write the gospel -- he told them to share it by word of mouth, which Paul makes frequent mention of. That doesn't sound very much like Jesus taught sola scriptura to me. The Gospel of Mark wouldn't be written for another 10-20 years after Galatians.
We have the inspired writings. The early church theologians were convinced as well:
"We have learned from none others the plan of our salvation, than from those through whom the Gospel has come down to us, which they did at one time proclaim in public, and, at a later period, by the will of God, handed down to us in the Scriptures, to be the ground and pillar of our faith." (Irenaeus Against Heresies Book 3, chapter 1)
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