[Buggman]

And Messianics believe that Jewish culture and thought must be taken into account when understanding the Scriptures, but you wouldn't accept me quoting from the Talmud as authoritative, would you?

If D-fendr wants to quote from Holy Tradition as commentary on the Scriptures, all well and good--I certainly make it a habit to show how Jewish culture impacts our understanding of the NT, and fair's fair. But again, my challenge is to prove me wrong from the Bible, not to simply repeat the Catholic line to me.

Come now, if you truly believed that the Scriptures and Tradition were in no ways contradictory and that the Scriptures backed you up, you wouldn't be calling this a stacked deck. The only way it's a stacked deck is if the Scriptures are overwhelmingly on my side.

Are you perhaps concerned that that might be the case?

[TexConfederate1861]

Not at all. But then again, what you believe to be contradictory, and what I do are two different things.