Not at all. You seemed to be trying to use Paul’s instruction to the Jews to look to the Gospels in Scripture as a proof of your disput of Oral Tradition in the Church. It seemed as though you misunderstood Paul to be speaking of the Gospels of Christ as recorded in the New Testament to prove this. But nonetheless, Paul was preaching the Gospel.
This is Oral Tradition.
Ok, you need to clarify this statement. You have me using, looking, and disputing all in the first sentence. Then you say that I “misunderstood Paul to be speaking of the Gospels” implying that he wasn’t, and then you say “But nonetheless, Paul was *preaching the Gospel.” This is at best confusing and at worst nonsense.
Obviously, the New Testament Gospels were not inspired as of this time, so Paul couldn’t have been speaking of them.
Speaking of them where?
]That would bring us to the conclusion that Paul was referring
to the Old Testament Gospels and preaching (Oral Tradition) the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Of coarse Paul preached. If thats what you define as (oral Tradition) as we don’t have a problem.
Now, in order to do this Paul would have
to be speaking of things
implied in the Old Testament, but not explicitly stated .
Please consider these vs.
Galatians 1
1Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead

2And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:
3Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
4Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
5To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
6I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
7Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
8But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
9As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
10For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
11But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
12For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
13For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
14And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
15But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,
16To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
17Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me
You can see here that Paul was Preaching not to the Jews, but to gentiles (heathen). He was preaching things taught him by Jesus Christ Himself.
Paul is actually doing exactly
what the Church Magesterium does today, uses it’s Apostolic authority to guide its believers through Scripture, even those things that are implicitly stated.
You will notice v. 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. So, does your chuch magesterium do this, preach only the gospel that Paul preached and none other. Well, infant baptizm and Sunday observance. praying to saints, the assumption of Mary (ex cathedra). Mary as co-redemtrix, the sinlessness of Mary and on and on. Tells us that your church is not the one that is preserving the scriptures, but the one Paul warns against as being accursed for preaching another gospel.
See, my point is this, you believe that at some mysterious point in time (notwithstanding the period between the actual canonization of the Old and New Testaments) that God took away this Apostilic authority and left us with only Scripture to guide His Church.
Can you show me where God did that?
Again you tell me what I believe. I appreciate the attempt , but I believe that the CC does not now nor did it ever have this, what you call apostolic authority. The scriptures are an authority unto themselves because they are THE WORD OF GOD.Isa 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Paul is clearly using Apostilic authority here to teach things that are not explicit in Scripture. greggy has shown you were the Church is in authority over Scripture.
I don’t know what scriptures you are talking about here or what post of greggy’s you are talking about.
So, we’ve clearly shown you these two ways in which the Church was leading Christ’s Ministry.
I’m sure you believe this, but since you fail to provide the post numbers or quotes in which this is “clearly shown” I must deny the veracity of this statement.
Not to mention the fact that you in some arbitrary way, believe the Church had the authority to decide which books would be in the Bible, but not how to interpret the same Scriptures? Or maybe the Church could be infallible in it’s cannonizing the Bible, but not it’s interpretation of it?
Wow! You seem to know what I believe better than I do. Again you attempt to tell me what I believe. The people that put the bible together were early christians, but they certainly were not Catholics.
Don’t you think the Church would have to know beyond all possibility of being errant what was in
Scripture before they could then put that in order and distribute it amongst all Christians for all time?
It doesn’t even make sense that you would accept the very Bible you quote from as being canonized correctly, but you don’t accept the very Church who did that to know what’s being said in it. That’s simply illogical.
If you could explain how you arrive at this, I think we could be on the same page.
Blessings,
HC
God is responsible for the bible that we have today. The Jews collected the books of the Old Testament, and yes, the early Christian Church collected the books of the New Testament, but they were not Catholics, and would reject much of what the Catholic Church teaches today as apostasy.*