Let's toss out thousands of brilliant minds of our ancestors and just interpret everything as we see fit.
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I don't see a screamingly brazen non sequitir as remotely close to the reality I know.
We do not toss out anything demonstrably valid. We do toss out traditions of men--particularly the tendency to equate them with God's Word.
2 Thessalonians 15
So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter.
How do you decide which teachings passed by word of mouth are legitimate or not?
Who is "we"?
If it were not for the "traditions" of men, no one would have bothered to assemble, interpret, translate, promote, or testify to these gospels. It took intelligence, judgement, activism, wisdom, money, drive, faith, and discernment to do all of those things. The intelligence, judgement, activism, wisdom, money, drive, faith, and discernment did not end the day St. Paul died or when the Nicene Creed was penned.
Please. Your interpretations of Sacred Scriptures that differ from the 2000 year history of the Church ARE traditions of men... What you consider as "demonstrably valid" is purely subjective interpretation.
For example, the "tradition of men" called Sola Scriptura - ironically, itself found NOWHERE in Scriptures...
Or how about the "tradition of men" called Sola Fide - a tradition that is absolutely denied in James 2...
Yes, let's take off the blinders and be careful next time you point at someone's "blindness".
Regards
I was told by a Baptist that Maccabbess is not in the King James because of they don't believe in purgatory and in that book they pray for the dead's souls. is that the reason you don't have Macabbee?