[CynicalBear]

>>but what you are actually rejecting is the Tradition of the Apostles, which St. Paul explicitly told us to keep.<<

Please show proof that what Paul was referring to as "tradition" is what the Catholic Church teaches today. No Catholic has been able to do that for me.

[Dutchboy88]

"Please show proof that what Paul was referring to as "tradition" is what the Catholic Church teaches today. No Catholic has been able to do that for me."

You beat me to the keyboard. Therein lies the problem...the Roman view becomes a self-proving, circular argument: We believe we have the authority and that authority says that what we say is true, so what we say is true, because we have the authority. Pardon?