MENTOR. And you are not called teachers: for you have one teacher, Christ (Matt. 23:10). You have thousands of teachers in Christ (1 Corinthians 4:15). Obey your leaders (Heb. 13:17). Remember your leaders (Heb. 13:7).

TRADITION

This is not an additional block of information, but an unchanging way of interpreting the Scriptures and the work of Christ. Foreknowledge is the meaning and content of Scripture. The Bible is not a self-taught book, but an internal church book. A correct understanding of the Bible is not equal to a knowledge of its text, otherwise all sects possess the text, and would possess its meaning! The criterion of truth in the understanding of Scripture is the degree of belonging to Tradition. The ignorant and the unconfirmed pervert the Scriptures (2 Peter 3:16). Therefore, Brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you have been taught, either by word or by our epistle (2 Thess. 2:15). What you have heard from the beginning, let it abide in you: if that which you have heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father (1 John 2:24). I praise you, Brethren, that you remember all my things and keep the tradition as I have handed it down to you (1 Corinthians 11:2). We bequeath you, Brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to depart from every brother who walks disorderly, and not according to the tradition which you have received from us (2 Thess. 3:6). Oh, Timothy! Keep what is given to you, turning away from worthless empty talk and reproach of falsely named knowledge (1 Timothy 6:20). Hold fast to the pattern of sound doctrine which thou hast heard from me (2 Timothy 1:13). What did you hear from me... handed down to faithful people (2:2) What you have learned, what you have received, and have heard, and have seen in me, do it (Phil. 4:9).

Controversy

Tradition was necessary before the canon of the New Testament. A correct understanding of Scripture is part of Tradition. It is inseparable from the text. The absence of Tradition, in the presence of a text, is a thousand sects, and all of them are "right," for "sola Scriptura" does not set limits to interpretation.

By observing the Scriptures, one can be saved without Tradition. It is possible by observing all the Scriptures, i.e. by adhering to Tradition. (2 Thess. 2:15).

The Church only stated the already established canon. All the Ecumenical Councils were of the same nature, but they have the most important significance for the general Christian dogma and belong to the OC, as well as the Carthaginian (397; 419), Hippo (393) and the Epistle of Athanasius of Alexandria (367), which determined the canon.

If the Church by the fourth century had a mass of (Orthodox) errors, then it acted absurdly by establishing a canon that contradicted its practice. It turns out that the Church approved the canon of the New Testament only because it did not fully understand it? Or is there no contradiction in Scripture with the practice of the Church of the fourth century!

If anyone adds... God will put plagues on him (Rev. 22:18). It is said about "Revelation", the book was written in 95, and the Gospel and the Epistle of John were written in 98-105. What happens?

Turn away from women's fables (1 Tim. 4:7). And in order to turn away from them, it is precisely necessary to "stand and hold the traditions which we have been taught" (2 Thess. 2:15); "to remember and keep the traditions" (1 Corinthians 11:2). And they should preserve the Scriptures from free interpretations.

Do not philosophize beyond what is written (1 Corinthians 4:6). So that Christians do not exalt themselves over one another (4:6), for some have argued about teachers: who is Paul, who is Apollos, etc. (1:12). In the same epistle: I praise you, brethren... (see 1 Corinthians 11:2).

So that they don't... they were engaged in fables and endless genealogies, which produce more controversy than edification in faith (1 Timothy 1:3-4). Here we are not talking about the Apostolic Tradition, but about pagan and Gnostic mythology. The Gnostics mixed paganism with Christianity, telling about their gods (aeons) with their endless genealogies (Titus 3:9). For example, Such are Imenaeus and Philetus, who departed from the truth, saying that the resurrection had already taken place (2 Timothy 2:18).

ICON

Idolatry is the worship of the creature instead of the Creator, sometimes accompanied by the deification of one's own products.