Now you do realize that the word they received would be the oral tradition, and that the scriptures that are being referring to in that verse would be the old testament, don't you?
Preaching is NOT *oral tradition*.
And it’s irrelevant that all they had was the OT. That’s because the NT hadn’t been written yet. They were living it and becoming part of it.
The Bereans were commended for searching Scripture to verify Paul’s message. And regardless of how much they had, just the OT, the principle is the same.
They didn’t go to the pharisees and scribes , nor appeal to Jewish tradition that the scribes and pharisees added to God’s law that Jesus condemned.
They went to the only sure and reliable source. Scripture. God’s word.
It’s pretty staggering when you think about it, that people would say what God breathed out and inspired is not good enough.
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Are you suggesting that all the Marian dogmas, the infallibility of the pope, and all of the other later developments Rome came up with were part of the oral tradition being preached in Acts?
And not one writer of the NT recorded these and incorporated them into Scripture??