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I think the above shows that even a casual reading of the bible is enough to seriously damage many positions held by the Catholic church.
The Catholics will then point to ‘tradition,’ usually prefaced with the word ‘holy,’ as being of equal footing with the scripture itself.
Now, consider this, Jesus said that no house which is divided against itself can stand [Mark 3:25]; and He also claimed to be the word made flesh [John 1; John 6:56].

So then, we can assume that a “Holy Tradition” cannot, in fact, contradict the word itself; yet we see that this claimed “holy tradition” counters the plain-meaning reading of the actual scripture very, very frequently. In Mark 7 Jesus ends his criticisms of the Religious Elite in verse 13 where He says:
“Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”