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Well Craig, as I've noted in other threads, your friend would only come to that conclusion if he had a faulty view of Sola Scriptura. Solo Scriptura is a "me and the Bible" view. It may be common among those who call themselves Reformed but this is not the view of Sola Scriptura that the Reformers upheld nor is it in our Confessions.
Of course, the problem with your friend is that the Confessions were likely no good for him. He probably preferred a "me and my Bible" stance and instead of submitting to the proper bounds of Church authority granted by God's Word, he chose to embrace an Institution that ascribes to itself much more than the Scriptures grant the ministerial authority of the Church. He ought to have been uncomfortable with being a "Pope in himself" to infallibly interpret Scripture. He probably got tired of the job and decided to let Rome be Pope for him. Either way, he's not content to let the Word be properly ministerially interpreted.
It is one thing to affirm that the Church has interpretive authority. The Confessions grant that. It is a perversion to insist that the Church has infallible interpretive authority or that her tradition is canonical itself.
Thus a proper Presuppositionalism has to be grounded in the Word - and that includes the Word's teaching on what authority the Church does and does not have. Our Confessions agree with the Word that Synods and Councils settle disputes but that our Confessions are not themselves canonical. They merely affirm what the One authority teaches.
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