I don't know what you mean by oral tradition,... But misinterpreting the written words of Paul into saying something that he is not intending them to say CAN lead to heresy. Nevertheless, I'm not accusing you of heresy, but you did get my guard up when you called Mike's position on the minor issue of head covering paramount to standing is judgment of the Gospel. That is taking this entirely too far. That is making a mountain out of a mole-hill, a big issue out of a minor point of theology and biblical interpretation. Down that road lies legalism and heresy. The Pharisees began their order a couple of centuries before Christ as conservative reformers of a Jewish doctrine that had become intolerably liberal, and they even met with some success. But then they slowly started to get too caught up on the little things, putting an over-emphasis on adherence to Law and custom at the expense of the true message. The result we see in the NT where they are heretical, legalistic, and as Christ calls them, hypocrites. A similar thing can be said to happen to the Catholic church, and even to the Puritans. Let us be careful that we don't ourselves repeat history yet again.