Answering Protestant loaded questions

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What’s the best way to answer this Protestant loaded question?

“Please give us just one of those so called sacred traditions you can prove Jesus and the apostles taught THAT MAN MUST HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF TO BE SAVED that CANNOT be found ANYWHERE in scripture?”
 
I can’t understand what this person is saying. I’d need clarification. And better yet, I’d like to see what exactly they’re citing and where.
 
The best way to answer is to not answer. There is no answer that people will accept if they believe everything has to come from the Bible directly or they won’t believe it’s true. Not worth the time it would take.
 
Doesn’t matter whether it’s in Scripture or not. We’re not a sola scriptura church.
If the church teaches it authoritatively, then it’s through development of doctrine.
I personally don’t discuss religious matters if people aren’t respectful. There are plenty of places that people can learn about Catholic teaching, if they just want to argue, I don’t engage with them.

 
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I would say the best way would be to ask them questions like…‘did Jesus establish a Church?’…‘did Jesus mention anything about the bible?’…‘how did Jesus command us to settle disagreements?’…'how was the bible put together? They might not show it immediately but you might plant a seed in their heads that may make them check things out later on. Of course, before you ask these questions make sure you already know the Catholic answer. 🙂

It will always come down to Authority.
 
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I have never had the chance to ask this, but I’ve always wanted to ask: " did Jesus write a book, or establish a church?"
 
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Scripture, itself, tells us that not everything Jesus said and did was recorded in Scripture (John 21:25), and to hold on to unwritten teachings and traditions (2 Thess 2:15).

Now here’s where tradition comes into play often. Going by scripture alone, Protestants and Sola Scriptura adherents often disagree with each other over teachings such as the following:
Infant baptism, baptismal regeneration (directly a matter of salvation), whether one can lose salvation or not, whether one can sin freely and still be saved, the Real Presence, whether to rest and worship on the 7th vs the 1st day, even whether or not Jesus is deity. And they all have fairly plausible arguments for their respective positions.

But for the ancient Churches, in the east and the west, these, for the most part, were never even a question or controversy, having received and practiced the faith a certain way since the beginning.
 
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This reminds me of the scripture of the man born blind and Jesus restores his sight John ch 9. The pharisees are raking him over the coals and the guy is on to them so he says…
27 He answered, “I have told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples too?”
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They hurled insults at him and threw him out of the Temple.
If you know they want to challenge the church’s teaching and rake you over the coals, you could take the reply from scripture, ‘Do you want to become Catholic too?’ You’d be quoting scripture after all. Mention you’re quoting John ch 9. The first disciples ‘broke the bread’ as Jesus commanded us to do and Catholics continue to do till today.
 
The Bible. That is the Sacred Written Tradition.

But, chances are that you are arguing against ego rather than intellect. The intellect may be convicted of error, but the ego cannot be.
 
The bible is one answer, it came from sacred tradition . It was the Catholic Church that selected what books were authenic. I think in 392 ad.
 
I don’t think it’s about having special knowlege, but it’s more like how the early church decided that members didn’t have to be circumcised, that was something (uncircumcision being saved) that was NEVER in scripture, but rather an interpretation, and that’s what the Church still does.
 
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Ask how this Protestant knows the authors of the gospels. They do not identify themselves so one has go to a source outside the Bible to know that Mark wrote his gospel, etc. Bible-only doesn’t make sense.
 
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What’s the best way to answer this Protestant loaded question?

“Please give us just one of those so called sacred traditions you can prove Jesus and the apostles taught THAT MAN MUST HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF TO BE SAVED that CANNOT be found ANYWHERE in scripture?”
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Scriptures are the Written accounts which came years after the Actual Actions of Jesus & Apostles.

Those Actual Events came First AND? Saved People before the NT came into Existence
 
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