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That is exactly the sort of argument the Gnostics brought forth. That they heard or were told things by Apostles that others did not, nor were elsewhere written down.

Consider John 21:25. Doesn't scripture tell us it wasn't possible to write down everything about Jesus? Did Jesus command his apostles to teach or to write? Did they live in a culture where teaching was passed down orally?

Go ahead and pass if you like. It seems you don't have a scripture that prohibits oral teaching or prescribes adherence to written teaching exclusively.

Can you cite a couple scriptures that the early fathers used to disprove oral tradition?

89 posted on 10/27/2012 5:54:54 PM PDT by PeevedPatriot ("A wise man's heart inclines him toward the right, but a fool's heart toward the left."--Eccl 10:2)

Can you cite a couple scriptures that the early fathers used to disprove oral tradition?

Been there, done that. Asked and answered.

What of this "secret" info, though? How to justify it? My, what a pickle.

Rome's Gnosticism. it's So because We Say It's So.