Well then protestants using sola scriptura are stuck and cannot answer these questions even on the basics of salvation and how one comes to God and is saved initially.
Well, thats' not true at all. I guess you'd like it to be ture, but it isn't. I am a Protestant and I already offered to name any number of necessary doctrines that are derived from the Bible Alone, so you are clearly wrong in saying what you just did. How many would you like me to identify for you that come from Scripture? Two was the number you were asked for from Tradition, as I recall, so how about that?
1. Jesus of Nazareth was God incarnate.
2. The Lord's Supper is to be celebrated by us, using bread and wine.
Would half a dozen be better? Just liet me know.
Does a person come to Christ and get saved initially by infant baptismal regeneration as Lutherans teach or by a decision that is made later on when their 8-12 years old as Baptist teach???
Check with Scripture and see what it teaches you.
Now your know your just sounding foolish and playing childish games when you say that there are several Catholc churches. You know that sedevacantist chruches have been excommunicated by the Catholic church.
What is true but unfamilar may seem foolish to the listener. The things of God, we are told in scripture, are going to seem foolish to mortals because we don't understand them fully. They cut against our assumptions, so we naturally want to call them wrong.
Not only is there the Roman Catholic Church, but there are the Old Catholic Churches (they have their own forum on CF shared with the Anglicans). Then the Eastern churches, classified as Catholic--the Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox churches, the many Eastern Orthodox Churches. The Liberal Catholic Churches, too. The same directory which identifies 30,000 Protestant churches also identifies over 300 Roman Cathoic Churches ALONE, not to mention the many Catholic churches such as the above names ones.
Most of these differ with each other on doctrine and also on what Tradition is and teaches. By your agrument, they are stuck and don't knwo what Tradition teaches.
If you all go by 2 Tim 3:16-17 then who is the man of God that these scriptures are sufficient for teaching then why haven't they worked yet? The Lutheran pastor who teaches baptismal infant regeneration or the Baptist who teaches the opposite?? What does the bible teach? How can you even know about salvation if the bible alone is already shown it can't work in others areas practically? Are you so sure your right?
Protestants differ in their interpretation of scripture. That doesn't make Scripture wrong, now does it? NO. Catholics differ when it comes to what their alternative--Tradition--teaches. But at least we knoiw what the Bible is! What Tradition are we talking about and what does it teach?
Bottom line here is that you want to compare one denomination--the Roman Catholic Church to every Protestant denomination simultaneously. Wonder of wonders, that makes the RCC look united and the Protestants--taken as a mass as if they all ever believed the same or had a similar background in any way other than that they are not Roman Catholic churches--have disagreements.
That is of coruse a false way of making a comparison.
I could, for example, compare the Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod to every Catholic church (or let's say every church which is on the Apostolic forum on CF for having a claim to Apostolic Succession) at once--and guess what we find? Oh yes, the LCMS is united while the RCC and similar churches are all over the place. By that argument, the RCC cannot be right since it is part of a group that is disunited.
I don't think you can answer that can you??
The above is the answer, and no, it wasn't hard at all.
Thought of any doctrines that are strictly from Tradition yet?
