The Masoretic text is just an agreed-upon convention for pronouncing (and spelling and punctuating) the traditional texts. I’ll repeat: The Masoretic text, to a traditional Jew, does not determine meaning.
Bad choice.
Mark 7.13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
non sequitor
Since meaning is determined by tradition, or perhaps by the Holy Spirit, Masoretic or non-Masoretic, or even Septuagint or KJV, wouldn’t matter for the overwhelming majority of situations.
Whether or not this is a good or bad method, I think that the traditional Jew holds the Talmudic traditions more authorative than a private interpretation of the text of Tanach.
Am I correct in this?
Did Roman Catholics rely upon an ongoing Tradition, too?
How then are they any better or worse?