men’s traditions should never trump or be considered equal to scripture.
the pharisees got wrapped up in traditions to the point they missed Christ altogther, and decided to pay someone to murder him. their traditions took them far away from God, all the while they believed they were right to crucify Jesus and persecute Christians.
And yet it was "tradition" that built New Testament Scripture...
2 Thess 2:15 So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught, whether by word of mouth or by letter from us.
We don't follow the "traditions of men". We follow the traditions of God (the Deposit of Faith given by Christ) which formed the basis of faith for the early Christian Church.
The problem is that is an either/or proposition. One has to step back and realize this is not an act of “trumping” but fulfilling. One has to believe they are not simply man’s traditions but what God had intended.
As has been pointed out the Canon of Scripture wasn’t even codified until hundred of years after the Crucifixion. The Early Church conducted itself not on what was written, but what was done. Given instruction by Christ to go and do these things. One has to accept that what the early church did has meaning. The Eucharist, the forgiveness of sins. All of these things. Christ’s Church did not begin with the codification of the Bible.
Agreed. So why do Protestants cling to beliefs that are provably contrary to scripture and have no pedigree before the 12th Century, like Luther's warped concept of grace as a merely extrinsic and forensic concept?
Agreed. So why do Protestants cling to beliefs that are provably contrary to scripture and have no pedigree before the 12th Century, like Luther's warped concept of grace as a merely extrinsic and forensic concept?