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"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.

But you aren't reading the entire Bible. Why do you think those books got lelft out of the King James and other versions??

Have you read these other books?

And you are aware, aren't you, that Martin Luther changed out some words to support some of his notions, aren't you?

Catholics do not pray to saints. They do ask saints to intercede with God on behalf of their prayers.

Who among us has not had a dear one pass into death, and then thereafter occasionally whisper to them to help us, and to ask God to help us, since we presume they are now with God? This does not constitute "praying to" my dead father, but of presuming that I can communicate with him in spirit until we are reunited.