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Isn’t that ironical, the ones that God gave the honor of sifting through all the manuscripts and preserving the word for the whole Christian world, should be the ones who now reject it as final authority, and do as the Jews did, put tradition and human authority over the written word.

I would love to see a source for that. The Church most certainly does NOT place tradition & human authority over Scripture.

Do you mean one from the Catholic Encyclopedia or New Advent? No probably not, that is what we do on these threads every day.

Christ condemned the Pharisees for having the authority to lessen the burden on the people, but they refused to do so, simply to keep them in abject submission.

All other Churches have this same power to loose and to bind, and some have gone way too far at loosening, but your church is as tenacious as a pit bull, and even things like eating meat on Friday, which as most of your traditions, have no Biblical backing, still you refuse to do away with this useless law, for fear your empire might crumble.

You have painted yourself into a corner, and now you have no way out, you have to hold onto traditions that even your own hierarchy must wish weren't there, but you can't do anything about it now, because all of your traditions are foundational cards, in your house of cards.

eating meat on Friday, which as most of your traditions, have no Biblical backing, still you refuse to do away with this useless law, for fear your empire might crumble.

Well. I would rather have fish than bull like this. Whoever said that meatless Fridays --which are restricted now to Lent and Advent--was ever anything except a matter of discipline?

but your church is as tenacious as a pit bull, and even things like eating meat on Friday, which as most of your traditions, have no Biblical backing

Who ever claimed that not eating meat on Friday was some kind of doctrine? It was a charitable (& perhaps political) decision (I think during the 17th century) by the church to aid fishmongers who were starving because nobody was eating fish. It was intended as a sacrifice of the people called by the church. We continue it today as a guidline for sacrifice during the season of lent (along with other sacrifices) in rememberance of Christ's 40 days in the desert and in preparation for Good Friday-Easter.

Nobody ever claimed that Scripture requires us to not eat meat.