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That is similar to the truth but not quite the same as the truth.Look at Mark 7:1-13 here, @MoreCoffee, in which Jesus criticizes the Pharisees for adding their tradition to the Old Testament
A Catholic reading of Mark 7:1–13 shows that Jesus is not condemning divine Tradition, but the Pharisees’ human traditions that “make void the word of God” (Mk 7:13), a distinction the New Testament itself makes when it commands believers to “stand firm and hold fast to the traditions” delivered “by word of mouth or by letter” (2 Thess 2:15). Christ rebukes the Corban practice precisely because it contradicted God’s revealed law (Mk 7:10–12), whereas apostolic Tradition is the mode by which Christ’s teaching is faithfully transmitted (cf. John 16:13; Acts 2:42). Catholic dogma explicitly teaches that Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture form one sacred deposit of the word of God, entrusted to the Church (Vatican II, Dei Verbum 9), and that the Church’s role is not to invent doctrines but to “religiously guard and faithfully expound” what was handed down from the apostles (DV 10). The Council of Trent likewise affirms that the Gospel was “first promised through the prophets… then promulgated by His own mouth, and then commanded to be preached by the apostles to every creature” and is preserved “in written books and unwritten traditions” (Decretum de Scripturis et Traditionibus). Thus Mark 7 condemns corrupt human additions, not the apostolic Tradition that the New Testament commands Christians to receive, preserve, and obey.