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Tomster
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newbie 1234,
Do you really expect Catholics to believe that you have rejected traditon? You may have rejected Sacred Tradition as the Church understands and teaches it but, whether you realize it or not, you most definitely have not rejected tradition.
By rejecting Sacred Tradition what you have done, either knowingly or not, is to substitute Protestant oral traditon for it, i.e. Sola Scriptura, and your own personal version of it at that.
The Church has always taught that the Bible is infallible. It is the Word of God. The Scriptures are without any formal error. But to move from this to the claim of the Reformers is to transfer inerrancy from the Word of God to the individual reader of it, investing him with an infallibility surpassing by far that of the pope.
As is to be expected, a creed, like Sola Scriptura, made up by men in the sixteenth century eager to throw off authority, lacks the guarantees and safeguards which protect Catholics. The following article of belief announced by Martin Luther is an example:
“The earnest Protestant who goes directly to the Bible for his beliefs is brought into immediate contact with the [Holy Ghost], and can take the ideas that his reading conveys to him personally as the direct teaching of the [Holy Ghost] to himself, and the individual inquirer can . . . be sure of extracting from the Scripture text the intended meaning of its divine author.”
The flaw in the reasoning leads to the multiplicity of opinions and creeds in Protestantism, all of them “based on the Bible.”