The RCC, of course, as everybody knows, see their RCC “traditions” as that highest authority, traditions which establishes the Papacy as that highest authority. It is not the Bible alone, Papists add their “traditions” with the Bible as their authority.
As a “Papist” myself, i know none of this to be true. The Papacy nor traditions are the highest authority. The highest authority is the revealed Word of God, whether written down as Scripture or orally taught by the Apostles.
i would be careful about saying “as everybody knows” and then making a fool of yourself.
let me leave with a question to meditate on, since the Bible does not contain an inspired table of contents, how do you know which books are Scripture and which are not if not by Catholic tradition?
Modern Judaism would take issue with what I said too. And their response would be similar to yours. They would say they believe in the “word of God,” meaning the Old Testament.
A Muslim would say he believes in the Old Testament. And Mormons say they believe in “the word of God.”
Sure they do, but the question is, is it their ONLY written authority? No, modern Judaism, Islam, and Mormonism have additional authoritative writings which they hold equal to, or in some cases, even superior to the Bible.
As to yourself, if there isn’t any different between Papists and Protestants, why the division between us? Obviously, it is because Protestants do not see all the stuff Papists believe in the Bible.
Such things as the body of Christ having to be in subjection to Papal Rome, Popes , Priests and Nuns, which cannot get married, Mariolatry, Rosary beads, purgatory, a plethora of pagan/Christian holidays, and so on.
Protestants don’t see any of this in the Bible. No problemo to the Papists, their authoritative “traditions” take care of all that. Which traditions are in effect on a par with the other forms of extra-Biblical authority I mentioned.
Not to mention Papists have a different Bible. To gain a sort of one-upmanship on the Protestants, they added the apocraphal books to theirs.