How do you know?
How do you know they’re from the apostles?
How do you know they’ve been passed down faithfully?
What is your source for verifying all of the above?
Please provide the sources for verification purposes.
I'm interested, metmom.
So then according to you, you refuse to accept the Bible since those books were handed down by tradition. Your words:I don’t accept tradition, no matter how it’s packaged.
The books of the OT were handed down by tradition until the Canon was set. Now Catholics believe in the Alexandrian Canon, ordered several hundred years BC. Prots believe in the Palestinian canon ordered in 90 AD. Following the Palestinian canon gives several problems. This is the canon that denied Jesus. Second by what authority was it ordered?
So while you are going off on your tangents the questions still remain (See above in Italics.)
Scripture was written down.
That is not the kind of tradition that Catholics are referring to when they say that the RCC uses *sacred tradition*.
And since it was written down, it’s no longer tradition.