Roman Catholics present these very same arguments to argue in favor of Roman tradition, papal tradition! And then you turn around and find out that Eastern Orthodox polemicists use exactly the same arguments in favor of what they call their ‘Holy Tradition’ which is contrary to papal tradition. And so here you have two august Christian bodies (professedly Christian bodies) claiming the authority of tradition, and yet their authorities conflict with each other; their traditions conflict with each other. And yet, they laugh at Protestants for their ‘paper’ pope.
Something that I never thought about and most Catholics either. Every Church has its traditions, some more sacred than others, but Protestants don't elevate their traditions to the level of Scripture, or atleast they shouldn't. Some traditions conflict with others. Some patriarchs disagree with others. The early writings of some patriarchs disagree with their later writings. And where many of these patriarchs are now, I'm sure that they might wish that they could take back some of the things that they wrote. It is definitely not so with the writers of the Scriptures.
Very well put.