[mgist]

Acts 17:10 Then the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. 11 These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so. 12 Therefore many of them believed, and also not a few of the Greeks, prominent women as well as men.

Are you saying that this is the scripture that determines that we can only act or believe in something if it is specifically in the Bible?

Even if that were the case, I don't see how it would be even be possible. If in Joel Osteen only mentioned biblical passages in 5% of his sermon and the rest is interpretation (which is very good by the way), How do I disregard the 95%?

A text that is very pertinant to the issue of Oral Tradition is St. Pauls letter to the Thessalonians were we read: 2Thes 2:15

'Therefore brethren, stand fast, and hold the Traditions which ye have been taught, whether by WORD, or our Epistle'.

[DungeonMaster]

Are you saying that this is the scripture that determines that we can only act or believe in something if it is specifically in the Bible?

I won't say sola scriptura. But I will say that this scripture says that even given a limited subset of the scriptures, they were more trustworthy than the apostles very words. This is just one of the many places where the scriptures are highly honored. Yet on the original topic, you just don't see this of Mary. Mary is so secondary to the idea of protties pleading with RCs to honor the scriptures.