<<<<......”Because protestants do not recognize the authortity of ‘Sacred Tradition’.... chapter and verse (Scripture)to me, doesn’t mean anything if one is not willing to accept the authority of the Word ‘beyond the text’.......>>>>>>
The Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus about that very thing saying..... “Why don’t your disciples live according to ‘the tradition of the elders’?
Jesus replied, ( note: Jesus using scripture)...... “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: ......”These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me....They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules”......
He then continues.....”You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to ‘human traditions’....How nobly you act!... setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!..... (Imposing “your” traditions ‘as equal’ in authority to the laws of God).......Thus.... ‘you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down’. (Mark 7)
That kind of escapes them.
They’ve convinced themselves that they are not following the *traditions of men* as the Pharisees were so God puts His stamp of approval on it.
They’re exempt because they’re *special*.