so are you saying Paul didn’t tell the Thessalonians to keep the tradition taught by him?
2 Thessalonians 2:15
“So then, brethern, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter”
sounds like St Paul is equating Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition as both being the Word of God. I think only the Catholic Church keeps these traditions, since she received them from the Apostles.
When the evil one or his representatives misuse the Bible, or imply that it is unclear, Jesus teaches us that we must look more deeply into the written Word, not away from it.
“You nullify the Word of God for the sake of your tradition” (Matthew 15:6).
The real authority for Rome is neither Scripture nor tradition, but the church.
I will depend on Sola Scriptura over Sola ecclesia every time.
In the RCC tradition contradicts tradition. For example, the tradition of the Roman church teaches that the pope is the head of the church, a bishop over all bishops. But Gregory the Great, pope and saint at the end of the ancient church period, said that such a teaching came from the spirit of Antichrist (“I confidently affirm that whosoever calls himself sacerdos universalis, or desires to be so called by others is in his pride a forerunner of Antichrist”) [Cited in Cambridge Medieval History, section written by W. H. Hutton, edited by H. M. Gwatkin and J. P. Whitney,(New York: The MacMillan Co., 1967) 11:247.]
If the RCC continues on it’s current path one could easily see that they could travel the same road as Islam, Mormons, or any other “religion” who follows some man who says he has some new revelation.