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.
The question stands. Do you condemn the Apostles for adding their traditions to HIS WORD? It is a simple query derived from your own statement. You hedged on the answer. Try again or perhaps you should just withdraw your original statement.
The Sixteenth Century avant garde Protestants were not simple men.
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
LOL. The Protestant princes were "liberated" from obedience to the Church but the people had to bow and scrape before the new absolutist power of government. Previously, there had been a balance of power between the "lords temporal and religious." Subsequently, the people were on their own with no authoritative religious leaders to protect them. The Church had kept one third of the land in Europe as living space for peasants and monks. The newly "liberated" princes seized these properties for themselves and booted off the inhabitants. Luther bitterly lamented this result in his later years.