[Salvation]

**The purpose seems to be that the Scriptures are in competition with the "authority" of the RCC and must be undermined so as to enhance the position of the hierarchy.**

This doesn't make sense to me. Holy Tradition and Holy Scripture support each other.

[PetroniusMaximus]

"This doesn't make sense to me. Holy Tradition and Holy Scripture support each other."

Let me give you an example. We find the Catholic practice of praying to Mary and the saints to be out of step with the Bible. In the Bible you will never find a believer calling out in prayer to anyone other than God.

Nevertheless, Catholic tradition holds that this is a good and beneficial thing to pray to the saints. In fact, IIRC, it may be seen as a necessary thing in order to be saved or reduce time in purgatory.

This practice of praying to saints is integral to Catholic theology yet it finds no support in Scripture. The Catholic Church claims, implicitly, that it has the authority to give the OK to a practice that has no Scriptural support and is, to the mind of many, actually an anti-Scriptural practice.