What makes you think that God's Word is limited to the written Word? It isn't!
What makes you think God’s written word can be contradicted by any other communication purportedly from God? It’s very odd to me, for Catholics to claim authorship, even ownership of the Bible but to so casually dismiss it when inconvenient.
Either it’s scripture or it isn’t. Either your church was in error then, or it’s in error now, when in contradiction. That is avoided by adhering to the written word and testing all things against scripture. We’re even told to do this, by scripture. By scripture you and I both accept as divinely inspired.
Are you a Constitutionalist? Do you see what has happened over the course of less than 250 years as a result of allowing learned men to interpret and make pronouncements that violate the intent and the spirit of the written document? Is what we have now even recognizably Constitutional in many instances? No, it’s not.
That is the danger in veering from the written word.
Likewise...
What makes you think that the RCC's tradition is equal to God's Word?
IT IS!! And get over it because you will be judged by the Written Word - not man-made doctrine! So keep up!
Not understanding what is written; yet claiming that's not all there is! LOL! A double-minded man...
Go to the back of the class and have our resident scholar, Daniel1212, teach you.
GOD'S WORD is The FINAL Authority! Hear and Obey IT, it's the only way to please The Father is to BELIEVE His Son, Jesus The Word.