Is learning Tradition the same as learning Scripture?

[fakename]

Is learning Tradition the same as learning Scripture?

Can one say that he knows the Bible if he learned Tradition?

 

[Anathama_Sit]

Greetings Fakename,

It can be. However I would counsel Catholics to learn Sacred Scripture.

Nothing in Sacred Tradition contradicts either Sacred Scripture of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church. These three do not stand alone by themselves, they are interrelated.

If one only studies Sacred Tradition, they will have come to know the Bible through Sacred Tradition, but not in the same way had they chosen to learn and study Sacred Scripture as well.

God Bless.
Anathama Sit

 

[Pfaffenhoffen]

Is learning Tradition the same as learning Scripture?

Can one say that he knows the Bible if he learned Tradition?

Yes.
Better, you know better the Scriptures using the glasses of Tradition than reading the Bible by yourself.
There is an archeological site around where I live. I went there sometimes But found it utterly boring. And then, a friend of mine invited me to fo there with a Professor of university in the domain of archeology.
It was completely different: things that I gave no importance at all he explained with such clarity that I saw the monument raise up from the ground and i understood all its significance in is small details. I remember jumping a stone and the Professor said: "Look, there were 2 doors here, one from such a century, another afterwards. I looked and I saw the doors, exactly as he said.

The same with the Bible.

 

[GraceSofia]

How would one set about learning Tradition?

 

[promethius]

Is learning Tradition the same as learning Scripture?

No, of course not. Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition are two different legs of Doctrinal Truth (the third being Sacred Magisterial Teaching). They’re not the same… if they were, it wouldn’t be a tripod holding up Truth, would it???

Can one say that he knows the Bible if he learned Tradition?

Yes and no. One can’t, say, quote Eph 2:8-10 just by learning tradition. So obviously that would APPEAR to say no.

But what do you mean by the Bible? Is our goal in studying the Sacred Scripture simply to know the Bible, or is it to reveal some level of doctrinal and divinely revealed truth?

If we look at it as the latter, then Sacred Tradition of the Church will show us the truth of the Scriptures also. This much is assured to us through the survival of the church for hundreds of years before the Canon of Scripture was even settled.

 

[EmeraldWings]

Is learning Tradition the same as learning Scripture?

Can one say that he knows the Bible if he learned Tradition?

The Bible is the inspired record of the revelations made to mankind by God about himself and his will for men, Tradition is the part of God’s revealed word which is not contained in Sacred Scripture, but is also God’s revealed word which was passed down to us, it’s not the same as reading scripture because scripture is specifically the reading of the books contained in the bible, but it is similar because they are still preserved under divine guidance by the Church.
but i would say no, because not everything found in the bible is found in tradition, and visa-versa, if you could learn everything from tradition that is in the bible, or learn everything from the bible that was in tradition, then there would be no need to have the two separated.

hope this helps, take care.