Sola Scriptura
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The following 'letter' is in answer to the objection of The Catholic Church using both Scripture and Sacred Tradition for its Teachings.
To Whom It May Concern;
I applaud you in that you seem fair in representing the teachings of the Catholic Church. Many have not done the research that you have. In turn they misrepresent the teachings of The Church. But, so far, you seem to have most of Church teachings correct. Thank you.
It is true that Catholicism retains the ancient Christian insight that sacred truth comes from both Scripture and Sacred Tradition.
We read in First Thessalonians;
2 Thess 2:15 Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours.
The early Church taught it's followers to hold both 'written' = Scripture & 'oral' = 'Sacred Tradition' in equal value.
1 Corinthians 10:1 "I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea, 2 and all of them were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3 All ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was the Christ."
St. Paul makes use of a Rabbinnic Oral Tradition, that the 'rock' followed the Israelites wherever they went, to show that this 'rock' that Yahweh provided for sustenance to His People Israel was actually "The Rock", Christ Jesus.
The use St. Paul makes here of Oral Tradition - we know that it is Oral Tradition, because there is no mention of the rock following the Israelites through the desert in the Old Testament - can be important for our apologetic defense of the Catholic Church, if we point out that both Jesus in Mt. 23:2 'the chair of Moses', and here and elsewhere in the New Testament (Jude 1:9), the New Church makes use of both Oral & Written Tradition.
I need to point out to you because you follow Sola Scriptura that the concept you follow is anti-biblical. It is also anti-Christian!
Because Christ and His New Church both use Teachings outside the accepted writings of the time (Scripture). And so, Christ's Church today would follow suit, using both Oral & Written Tradition.
Look them up.
Each verse, quoted in the preceeding apologetic,
used by the early Church is not in the Old Testament.
Jesus used teaching outside the written Canon. His followers used the same teaching technique. They expressed that the early Church should accept, equally, written and oral tradition.
Christ's Church still follows His Teachings and example today.
I do appreciate your enthusiasm but, in this case, it is misplaced.
Acts 5:39 But if it comes from God, you will not be able to destroy them; you may even find yourselves fighting against God."
Your friend in Christ;
Philip Turgati