God said All Scripture, Remember Peter said that Paul’s writings were Scripture. We all have to remember this is Gods Word, not mans word. God wrote his Word through human vessels.
JL: Yes indeed ALL Scripture IS inspiried as God said. So why do you ingnor Tradition, which inspired Scriptures tell us to HOLD FAST?
JL: [2Tm3:10 BUT **THOU HAST FULLY KNOWN MY DOCTRINE, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, 11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. 12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 14
But CONTINUE THOU IN THE THINGS WHICH THOU HAST LEARNED AND HAST BEEN ASSURED OF, KNOWING OF WHOM THOU HAST LEARNED THEM; 15
AND that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 ALL SCRIPTURE is given by inspiration of God, and
IS PROFITABLE FOR DOCTRINE, for REPROOF, for CORRECTION, for INSTRUCTION in righteousness: 17 THAT the MAN of God MAY BE perfect, thoroughly FURNISHED UNTO all GOOD WORKS.]
Tell me who decides DOCTRINE? Who REPROVES? Who CORRECTS? Who INSTRUCTS in righteousness that the man of God may be FURNISHED UNTO ALL GOOD WORKS. Answer that teaching authority SENT by Christ to TEACH the whole world till the END OF THE WORLD Mt28-16-20. The CHURCH the pillar and ground of the TRUTH, 1Tm3:15. Paul is instructing Timothy to use BOTH oral Tradition LEARNED, from Paul, as well as written Tradition=scripture.
2Thes2:14 Whereunto he called you by OUR GOSPEL, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and HOLD THE TRADITIONS which ye have been TAUGHT, whether BY WORD, OR our EPISTLE. [Paul is instructing Timothy to use BOTH what he has LEARNED (oral Tradition) and the written Tradition (Scripture) which Paul calls OUR GOSPEL.]
1TIM 6: Timothy,
keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings,
PHILIP 4:9
Those things, which
ye have both learned, and
received, and
heard, and
seen in me, do
[1 THES 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when **ye received the word of God which
ye heard, of us ye received it
not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.] BOTH divine Oral Tradition and Written Tradition of Scripture are the ONE Word of God
2 THES 2:14 Whereunto he called you by
OUR GOSPEL, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 15 Therefore, brethren,
stand fast, and
hold the traditions which ye have been
taught, whether BY word, OR our epistle.
Jn 14: 26: But the Comforter, which is
the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name,
he shall teach you all things, and
bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have
said unto you.
2TIM 2:1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2 And
the THINGS that thou hast
heard of me among many witnesses,
the same commit thou
to faithful men, who shall be
able to teach others also.
2 TIM 1:13
HOLD FAST THE form of SOUND WORDS, which thou hast
HEARD OF ME, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 14 That good thing which was
COMMITTED unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth
in us.
Timothy received the gift of the Holy Spirit by laying on of hands, (holy orders, ordination, apostolic succession.) It is thru the Holy Spirit that oral apostolic tradition is kept and discerned, by the church, as opposed to a tradition of men. Scripture tells us the Church is the pillar and ground of truth, 1Tm 3:15. The church’s testimony is of no less value than scripture, because the Holy Spirit is the origin of both and ACTIVE IN BOTH, as the council of Jerusalem wrote to the churches, Act15:28 For
IT SEEMED GOOD TO THE HOLY GHOST AND TO
US
[2THESSALONIANS3:6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye **WITHDRAW yourselves FROM EVERY BROTHER THAT WALKETH disorderly, and NOT AFTER THE TRADITION which he RECEIVED OF US.] Evidently Paul thought holding Tradition was very important otherwise why tell people to withdraw from A BROTHER who will not follow them.
other scriptures tell us, 1Jn 4:6 We are of God Whoever knows God LISTENS TO
US and he who is not of God DOES NOT LISTEN TO
US BY THIS WE KNOW the spirit of
TRUTH AND the spirit of
ERROR
Jn 15:20…if THEY have KEPT
my saying they
WILL KEEP YOURS ALSO Jn 17:20 Neither pray I for
these alone but for them which shall believe on me
through their word.] Apostolic tradition was delivered face to face from God (Christ) and is discerned by the help of the Holy Spirit. scripture is inspiried by the Holy Spirit. The canon of the bible was discerned, by the church, thru the Holy Spirit along with Apostolic Tradition.
The burden of proof would be on those who claim ALL Tradition is now written in scripture. They must prove scripture ALONE or produce scripture saying ALL Tradition is now in scripture. Otherwise they follow an oral tradition of men made a doctrine of God. Paul says in 2 Thes, our gospel, brethren, whether BY word=oral or epistle=written.
(Psssst, Protestant Brother, “the testimony of the early Christians” is code for…