I never said that at all, nor has anyone else on this thread.
Oral Tradition and Scripture complement and complete each other. They are not in conflict.
There was NO BIBLE prior to the Catholic Church creating the first Bible. Even then, the Bible was a priceless work of art which few actually had the privilege to read, themselves. It was read to them or it was memorized and recited to them.
The vast majority of Christians NEVER read their own Bible until well after the invention of the printing press.
How then, were very early church leaders Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp, et.al., able to so fully and frequently able to quote from both the OT and the NT?
Of course the Bible existed, and was read extensively daily and weekly in all the gatherings of the Christians. That's part of why they gathered....it was the way they had access to the Scripture, which was already pretty well defined long before later Councils made their official pronouncements on the issue.
Acts 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.<<
Hmmm, even that small assembly of believers had copies to search.
The view that the churches the apostles were establishing were a bunch of illiterate Neanderthals is totally preposterous. The minds that created the Temples, Pyramids, and other wonders during that time are evidence against an uneducated populace.