Then what's the point of *Sacred Tradition*?
Sacred Tradition does not contradict the Bible but amplifies it. The selection of the books to be included in the Bible is itself a part of this Tradition. Tradition and the reception of the revelation of the Bible are both part of our Lord’s promise to send his Holy Spirit and to be with us until the end of the ages. Jesus did not write a book but established a teaching church from which we received the Gospel and Sacred Scripture.
Protestants also operate with their own unacknowledged traditions when they pass on their manmade novelties of the Reformers. Unlike those of the Catholics, however, theirs actually contradict the very Bible that they “claim” as their only source of authority. Thus they empty such Biblical statements such as “this is my Body”, “whose sins you forgive are forgiven them”, “not all those who cry out ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the kingdom of Heaven but only those who do the will of my heavenly Father,” “faith without works is dead,” ect. of their plain and easily understood meaning.