[Elsie]

No, you're wrong, and that's a category mistake.

You appear to have made a logic mistake: "...Scripture is, itself, a major part of Apostolic Tradition.

If it is a part then it is necessarily LESS than the whole; thus it get's trumped by your Traditions.

[Elsie]

 

Matthew 15:1   New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

[ The Tradition of the Elders ] Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,

 

Matthew 15:2   New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands before they eat.”

 

Matthew 15:3   New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

 

Matthew 15:6   New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

So, for the sake of your tradition, you make void the word of God.

 

Mark 7:3   New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders;

 

Mark 7:5   New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?”

 

Mark 7:8   New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.”

 

Mark 7:9   New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Then he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition!

 

Mark 7:13   New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

thus making void the word of God through your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many things like this.”

 

Acts 6:14   Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the traditions which Moses delivered unto us.

 

1 Corinthians 11:2   New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

[ Head Coverings ] I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions just as I handed them on to you.

 

Galatians 1:14   New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

I advanced in Judaism beyond many among my people of the same age, for I was far more zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.

 

Colossians 2:8   New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ.

 

2 Thessalonians 2:14   Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

Therefore, brethren, stand fast; and hold the traditions which you have learned, whether by word, or by our epistle.

 

2 Thessalonians 2:15  New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by our letter.

 

2 Thessalonians 3:6   New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

[ Warning against Idleness ] Now we command you, beloved, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from believers who are living in idleness and not according to the tradition that they received from us.

 

1 Peter 1:18   Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers:

 

 

 

King James Version (KJV)

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)

New International Version (NIV)

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

 

 

 

TRADITION!!

 

 

 

 

[Mrs. Don-o]

Scripture IS less than the whole. Oral tradition (the rest of it) is ALSO less than the whole. It's logical. Where Scripture is S, Oral tradition is O, and Tradition is T:

S + O = T

S is less than T

O is less than T

Please don't get this mixed up with small-t tradition, which could be very good, true and beautiful, but not divinely inspired: bequesting your great-grandma's wedding ring.