[Joshua]

"And I find it highly comical that you guys continually laud the Jewish people who use tradition as well as the Torah and sacred scripture, yet you won't tolerate that same principal from Rome. "

Do a word search in the NT and find out what Jesus thought of the Pharisees who used "tradition" with the Torah. You won't find it comical when you realise your falling into the same trap.

[JMJ333]

Please show me where in the bible it says to only use scripture for a teaching manual. Please show me where it says that it is a catechsim. And Jesus was harsh with the Pharisees over being stubborn on certain traditions, but he did not condemn tradition outright. He only chastised those who were more concerned with it than with God. My point is that the apostles who were Jewish used the same methods of teaching as they had been taught.