The teaching of a separate body of Apostolic revelation known as Tradition... which is oral in nature.... originated, not with the Christian Church, but with Gnosticism.
This was an attempt by the gnostics to bolster their authority by asserting that the Scriptures were not sufficient....... They stated that they possessed the fullness of apostolic revelation because they not only had the written revelation of the apostles in the Scriptures but also their oral tradition,..... and the key for interpreting and understanding that revelation.
Just as the early fathers repudiated this teaching and claim by an exclusive reliance upon and appeal to the written Scriptures, so must we.....
Great read!.....Gnostics today make the same claims that they did at the time of the Reformation...unfortunately many do so bearing the badge of Christianity. Somehow they believe they can have one foot on both sides of the fence. It would appear some do not go far enough back in History for the Truth of what the forefathers actually believed, in sola scripture, rather Traditions infilitrated the church later on and today many remain.
Isn't it stunning how some things never change. The ideas just get dressed up differently, but they go back to the beginning.
I'm really struck by how those that reject Sola Scriptura seek to recreate the law as the means through which the individual is justified. The mechanism is "tradition", which conveniently can't be scrutinized because it's never been in Scripture.