Mark 7
5 The Pharisees and the scribes *asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk
according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with impure hands?” 6 And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:
‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me.
7 ‘But
in vain do they worship Me,
Teaching as
doctrines the commandments of men.’
8 Neglecting
the commandment of God, you hold to the
tradition of men.”
9 He was also saying to them, “You are experts at
setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition. 10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, is to be put to death’; 11 but you say, ‘If a man says to
his father or
his mother, whatever I have that would help you is Corban (that is to say, given
to God),’ 12 you no longer permit him to do anything for
his father or
his mother; 13
thus invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that.”
Acts 20
29 I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; 30 and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
No wonder Christ demonstrated the way to "hammer" supposedly holy-tradition of the one true nation church started by God at Sinai -- via "sola scriptura"
They were taught by the Apostles themselves.
Not according to Paul in Acts 20 -- Paul claims that simply being taught by him was not enough to stop the heresy from within .
Paul told Timothy to try and stop the rise of apostasy
1 Tim 1
3 As I urged you
upon my departure for Macedonia, remain on at Ephesus so that you may
instruct certain men not to teach strange doctrines, 4 nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which give rise to mere speculation
John points out that it was getting out of control
3 John 1
9 I wrote something to the church; but
Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not accept what we say. 10 For this reason, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words; and not satisfied with this,
he himself does not receive the brethren, either, and he forbids those who desire to do so and puts them out of the church.
So with an outright firefight in the first century we are then being told that in the 2nd and 3rd century "all must have been well.. surely nothing could have gone amiss".
Seriously??