[Salvation]

Catholic tradition does not contradict the Bible. How did people learn about Christ when there was no Bible in his day? By Holy Tradition — people talking with one another face to face.

I don’t see why non-Catholics can’t understand that.

As I said above — from the people who knew Jesus....and then the people who knew those who knew Jesus. And so it continued because there was no written word until 50 AD.

[Salvation]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3179804/posts?page=38#38
This refers to the Gospels. Actually the first account of the Eucharist is in Paul.

[Alamo-Girl]

As I said above — from the people who knew Jesus....and then the people who knew those who knew Jesus. And so it continued because there was no written word until 50 AD.

To the contrary, there were written words of God on earth in Hebrew for thousands of years.

Jesus said all three times in response to Satan's temptations "it is written."

The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. - Psalms 12:6-7

To God be the glory, not man, never man.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

>Catholic tradition does not contradict the Bible.

1 Timothy 3:2
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

Council of Elvira (c. 305)
(Canon 33): “It is decided that marriage be altogether prohibited to bishops, priests, and deacons, or to all clerics placed in the ministry...”

The only things more obvious than the contradiction between the above scripture and tradition is that you have no idea how to reconcile them, that you aren’t going to try and that you accept the traditions of men over the word of God.