Everybody is doing that, not just a small "elitist" group. Besides, I can't think of a more pompous elitist group than Calvinists.
Your "Holy Tradition" is what your sect decided it would be. It is unverifiable because it was not written down, witnessed and measured against Scripture
You are saying nonsense. Actually, you are describing the Protestant community while trying to describe the legitimate Church of Christ. So, if anything, Protestant assemblies are true sects.
The Church can trace its way back to the Apostles. It's authority is based on apostolic authority passed on to the priesthood ordained by the Apostles (such as +Ignatius, ordained by +Peter). Your assemblies can trace their originis to a man, Luther. Your ordinations are not apostolic. It is a man-created church. As such, its legitimacy is on the par with Islam, which sprang up out of a man as well.
We have documents that show how the nascent Church was and what it believed and how it went about its worship. All of ti was approved by the still living Apostles. Your sects sprang up 1,500 years later, and made up their own ocnfessions and rules. In Germany of all places.
Please do not ping me agian, poth of you. It's a waste of my time.
Actually, we can trace our roots to Christ. You trace your only as far back as the current version of tradition takes you.
It is a man-created church. As such, its legitimacy is on the par with Islam, which sprang up out of a man as well.
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WRONG.
Were it so, Holy Spirit would have NEVER rested on any Protestants . . . yet He HAS blessed countless millions through very heavy and miraculous anointing on many servants of a variety of Protestant stripes and degrees of learning . . . particularly degrees of unlearning.
Clearly, Holy Spirit disagrees with the post I'm responding to.
Actually,
The Romanist politically successful group of "MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS" sprang up as theological conquerors a few hundred years after the Apostles of Jesus dusty pathed days.