Reply: heretics can mix true with false — rejecting tradition is not automatically heresy
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Heresy is not every opinion a heretic holds.
False teachers can still affirm many truths.
Even shared rejection of traditions would not make rejecting them heresy.
They were heretics for perverting Scripture — not for under-valuing tradition; else we must also damn their confession that Jesus is Christ.
Latin
XXIII. Respondeo, quicquid haeretici sentiunt, protinus tamen haereticum non esse. Nam haeretici possunt cum falsis dogmatibus multa vera amplecti. Itaque, licet haeretici illi, quos adversarii recensent, traditiones communi consensu rejecissent, non inde sequeretur tamen haeresin esse traditiones rejicere. Nam haeretici quidem illi fuerunt, sed non in eo quod non satis tribuebant traditionibus, verum in eo quod contra Scripturae authoritatem perversa & impia dogmata defendebant. Alioqui, si quicquid illi senserunt damnandum est, credendum non est Jesum esse Christum, & pro Christo patiendum esse, quod illi quoque admiserunt.