Take for example past and present instances of tradition, reason, and experience. Even the humanistic scholars of Luther's day who had the New Testament in Greek clearly saw the discrepancies between the Church about which they read in the New Testament and the Roman Catholic Church. It was called Rationalism or Deism then. Deism was a system of belief in a transcendent God who, after creating His creation, left it to be governed by natural laws which are discoverable to man by reason. Whether it's Phillip's in Baltimore or the local Bonanza, dinner is on their sensate minds.
Church history is, in part then, a history of people in conflict with the primary rule of Scripture.
When that spiritual conflict is heightened to firm personal conviction or inner resolve, the Church will divide. Those who have allowed the Sword of the Lord to divide them from sin and error will be on one side of the gash. Those who have not will be on the other. God teaches we must be intensely vigilant to reject faithless traditions, reasonings, and experiences. He knew they would slither up to us.