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All of these facts are very difficult to explain if solos scriptorer were true. Jesus never said all revelation would eventually be confined to the written word alone. In fact, prior to his ascension into heaven, Jesus never told anyone to write anything down.
Number two, the New Testament writings never say all revelation is found in scripture. Indeed, no New Testament writing could have said that unless its author knew that he was the last entry into the New Testament canon and all the other apostles were no longer alive to preach. But unlike its frequent references to Christ returning in the future, the New Testament authors never say there will be a time in the future when authority in the church would transfer from tradition and written word as we see in 2 Thessalonians 2:15 and living teaching authority like we see in Acts 15 to just scripture alone.
And number three, the earliest church fathers like those before the council of Nika never say that scripture contains the whole council of God or anything like that. None of them say they operate under anything like solos scriptorera. Instead, they speak about how divine revelation is found in scripture and tradition.
All of these facts are very difficult to explain if solos scriptor were true. But they make perfect sense if God never intended for the written word alone to be the church's only infallible rule of faith.