rcwitness:
]I am not rejecting these Traditions. I don’t believe your Scripture passages are explicit support for them. My point is only that Scripture is not explicitly Teaching these Traditions.
Exactly, that is why the full deposit of the Apostolic Catholic Faith is handed down not by Sola Scriptura. The full deposit of faith is handed down by Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition and the Magisterium of Jesus Christ. A faith which lack’s one of these does not have the full deposit of faith handed down by Jesus and the apostles.
At Pentecost, the Jews were at a lost of what they were to do. It took Peter to inform them what the scriptures foretold and that Jesus brought them to their fulfillment, although the Jews had the scriptures memorized.
Sunday became a part of sacred Tradition, when the apostles gathered on the Eigth day in celebration of the breaking of bread (Last Supper) and prayers. The Mass is not stated explicitly in scripture. Yet the Mass celebrated on Sunday (resurrection) is not dogmatic because this Sacred Apostolic Tradition is never questioned or attacked. Except by SDA’s who come along too late and are never Catholic.
In retrospect; The Sacred Tradition encompasses all of Scripture including the seven deutero-books rejected by Protestants. The dogmas’ you listed are littered in sacred scriptures, just as the prophetic books Jesus fulfilled.But we need a teaching authority, Magisterium guided by the Holy Spirit which Jesus gave us and send to us, to teach us what is explicit in sacred sacred scripture and what is implicit from sacred scripture confirmed in sacred Tradition.
This full deposit if faith did not come by scripture alone. The full deposit of faith came to us by hearing and hearing the Word from within the Apostolic liturgies, where the full Trinity is present, as Truth is proclaimed and faith graced.
I don’t think, you can find one apostolic liturgy that is not littered, within the liturgical calendar with Theotokos. Is Theotokos or Trinity explicit in scripture. Yet, every Orthodox and Catholic in any age will cry foul, if a Christian denied Thetokos or the Trinity. The Magisterium gave us these, when the sacred Tradition came under attack.
Peace be with you