Who is the "the one adding their traditions to HIS WORD"? Are you condemning the Apostles?
There is NO reference in history or in scripture to these added traditions they are made up from old wives tales , fables and imagination ...
We have already established on this thread the uniform historical consensus that Peter had successors. Were the reigns of Caesar and Cleopatra also "old wives tales."
And every pope has became god and declared what is not written as truth... even simple merchants and blacksmith and fishermen can see that
The Sixteenth Century avant garde Protestants were not simple men. They were modern-minded sophisticates who looked down upon the "old wives tales" and "medieval superstitions" inherited from 1500 years of Christian history.
Playing games with words proves nothing and does nothing to glorify God ..The apostles were dead within 100 years of Christ's crucification. They like all men were subject to sin and error, with the exception of the inspired scriptures, their teachings they were not infallible..
Most of what we see as extra biblical Catholic tradition came well after that, as late as the 1950s by deluded men that believe their own publicity , seeing themselves as prophets and infallible
The Sixteenth Century avant garde Protestants were not simple men. They were modern-minded sophisticates who looked down upon the "old wives tales" and "medieval superstitions" inherited from 1500 years of Christian history.
Not one of them had men falling at their feet or kissing their rings.. they stood on the word of God as written by those simple men
Hbr 4:12 For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.