FK, there is no contradiction between what The Church has always and everywhere believed and what the scriptures which were measured against that belief say. Some people erroneously think there is.
I know that is the position, but I think we'll have to have a friendly disagreement about it. :) Of course all sides interpret and in some cases it seems like a real "stretch" to another side, but when I look at this as a big picture, the pattern I see is that the Reformed say the totality of scriptures "trump" the verse here or there that doesn't seem to fit at face value, whereas, the Apostolics seem to hold that extra-scriptural Tradition "trumps" all scripture, regardless of whether the passage is in the majority or minority as compared to the totality of scripture. That is, the Bible is not allowed to defend itself. Even if there were ten verses that strongly supported a point, they would all be interpreted away if they disagreed (at face value) with what the Church teaches today.