[metmom]

The Holy Spirit inspired the writing of Scripture.

There is no case for the teaching to having been passed down through oral teachings, which is not tradition, and then copied down at some later date some hundreds of years later.

Catholics are the ones claiming they follow the traditions passed down from the apostles that were not written down in Scripture.

OK, what are they?

[ealgeone]

What is really amazing to me is our RC friends continue to cite "tradition" as being equal to Scripture. Yet, the RCC did not include any of the writings they appeal to for their "tradition" at Trent when they dogmatically formalized their canon.

A review of the early lists of the NT canon excludes the overwhelming vast majority of the writings they appeal to.

It is clear the early ekklesia did not consider these Scripture or equal to Scripture....yet Roman Catholicism does.

They further their error by continuing to appeal to some of the apocryphal writings that were specifically excluded by Council. These include writings from which Rome extracts a lot of of its Mariology.

This is why I always ask, but do not receive, a definitive list of those canons/edicts they consider binding.