The entire piece has a LOT of HTML coding in it and is best viewed on its original website for the full effect.
As for “The Protestants won’t consider the oral transmission of God’s word”, the author is making a point about why there is so much arguing about Sola Scriptura vs. Tradition between Protestants and Catholics. Obviously, there was a long time where oral transmission of God’s word was there but eventually it was written down. In many cases, Catholics defend tradition by tradition instead of by God’s word. Both views are wrong. There is a balance but Divinely-inspired Scripture is the higher authority over tradition.
Did you read the whole article?
I need to clarify my question.
What does “the oral transmission of God’s word” mean?
You say this: “there was a long time where oral transmission of God’s word was there but eventually it was written down”.
I am not sure how that relates to this topic.
I am not a Catholic with a capital C, but a catholic with a small c.
Most Protestants are unaware of truly intellectual Catholic authors who do indeed find scripture for almost every one of their traditions.
E.g., just read an explanation of the veneration of relics - right here on FR. The veneration of relics was supported by the woman touching Jesus’ garment, and the handkerchief that Paul had touched that brought healing to others.
So it is not necessarily that our Catholic brethren (not all are brethren - but some certainly are - just as not all Baptists or Presbyterians are brethren - but some are. Only God knows....) don’t have scripture on which they base all their doctrines. It’s just like almost every denomination, sometimes their use of scripture is......a stretch.....
Who among us is correct on everything? We all “see through a glass darkly...” If you think you have it all nailed down and are 100% correct on everything - you are deceived. 10 years from now, you should be able to look back and see where you were off base, and be glad your understanding has progressed........
Christian unity will never come from wrestling over doctrine (attaining “the unity of the faith”, Ephesians 4:13, but by maintaining the unity of the spirit (Eph. 4:3) in the bond of peace. No - this is not ecumenism - which is a false declaring of unity where there is none.
We err because we seek to preserve that which we do not have - the unity of the faith - something we will attain only when we see Him......and because we try to attain the unity of the spirit - which we are rather commanded to preserve......not to attain.
We’ve got it backwards from Ephesians 4.