YES!!!! That's funny.
Whatever. I say let’s quote scripture at each other. Who gives what truths some troupe of kooky monks dreamed up 700 years ago? On the other hand, I remember now some Calvinists who love cutting and pasting enormous screeds of non-scriptural texts as well.
Yes. it does kind of cut into the credibility of complaining about appealing to tradition if you turn around and do the same thing.
So what’s wrong with citing just the Bible anyway? Good grief.
Gee, what are you doing on the RF making sense like that?
That sense is not unique to me. It's common sense -- the common sense that God gave all of us, just as He gave us His written Word.
And His written Word is *all* that we need. It's frustrating when, knowing that all we need to know is in the Bible, people come back at you and say you are ignorant if you've never read Marbodius of Rennes or memorized all the canons of the Second Council of the Lateran, and then proceed to cut and paste endless pages of text from non-Biblical screeds.
I don't care what some friars or monks decided to say six or seven hundred years ago. What is God saying *today* in His everlasting Word?
I'm just a simpleton, I guess.