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Randy_Carson
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When announcing a football game on TV, Pat Summerall takes the play-by-play announcement while John Madden does the “color commentary” adding to and given additional insight into what just happened on each play.
In this analogy, Summerall is giving us the details of what happens during each play while Madden breaks it down and explains different aspects of it. For example, Summerall’s call tells you that the quarterback drops back, has protection, sees a man open, fires into the endzone. Touch down! Washington Redskins.
Madden hits the instant replay button, takes his magic marker, and starts describing and diagramming blocking assignments that picked up the blitz, the crossing pattern that sprung the open man, and the blown coverage in the secondary that resulted in the reception in the endzone. He also connects that play to a similar one from earlier in the game and another from last week’s game.
Same play. Two different perspectives. One adding to our overall understanding of the other.
Sacred Scripture is the play-by-play. We see the words, but don’t always understand exactly what they mean. Tradition provides the color commentary in other words that we can understand.
Scripture is the ipsisima verba of God - each and every word chosen by God; Tradition is the ipsisima vox of God - the same thing in other words.
Scripture is inspired and infallible. Tradition is infallible. Why do we need Tradition if it is not inspired? Because it gives us additional insight in other words that make Scripture comprehensible to us in our own day.
Can we trust Tradition if it is not inspired? Absolutely. Things don’t need to be inspired to be trustworthy - they just need to be true. Truth is necessary of trust, not inspiration.
God cannot teach error, so anything he taught the Apostles is automatically infallible. The original Apostles taught with the same Authority as Jesus did since He gave His authority to them when he breathed on them in John 20. Therefore, anything they taught was infallible. Finally, the Apostles passed on their authority via the laying on of hands to the Bishops who came after them in a process known as Apostolic Succession. Thus, the Church’s leaders today speak with the same Apostolic Authority in maintaining the Tradition, or color commentary, of the Church.
Scripture has primacy over Tradition, and we look to Scripture first, but we also look to Tradition for an infallible interpretation and understanding of Scripture This concept is known in Catholic theology is known as Prima Scriptura.
In this analogy, Summerall is giving us the details of what happens during each play while Madden breaks it down and explains different aspects of it. For example, Summerall’s call tells you that the quarterback drops back, has protection, sees a man open, fires into the endzone. Touch down! Washington Redskins.
Madden hits the instant replay button, takes his magic marker, and starts describing and diagramming blocking assignments that picked up the blitz, the crossing pattern that sprung the open man, and the blown coverage in the secondary that resulted in the reception in the endzone. He also connects that play to a similar one from earlier in the game and another from last week’s game.
Same play. Two different perspectives. One adding to our overall understanding of the other.
Sacred Scripture is the play-by-play. We see the words, but don’t always understand exactly what they mean. Tradition provides the color commentary in other words that we can understand.
Scripture is the ipsisima verba of God - each and every word chosen by God; Tradition is the ipsisima vox of God - the same thing in other words.
Scripture is inspired and infallible. Tradition is infallible. Why do we need Tradition if it is not inspired? Because it gives us additional insight in other words that make Scripture comprehensible to us in our own day.
Can we trust Tradition if it is not inspired? Absolutely. Things don’t need to be inspired to be trustworthy - they just need to be true. Truth is necessary of trust, not inspiration.
God cannot teach error, so anything he taught the Apostles is automatically infallible. The original Apostles taught with the same Authority as Jesus did since He gave His authority to them when he breathed on them in John 20. Therefore, anything they taught was infallible. Finally, the Apostles passed on their authority via the laying on of hands to the Bishops who came after them in a process known as Apostolic Succession. Thus, the Church’s leaders today speak with the same Apostolic Authority in maintaining the Tradition, or color commentary, of the Church.
Scripture has primacy over Tradition, and we look to Scripture first, but we also look to Tradition for an infallible interpretation and understanding of Scripture This concept is known in Catholic theology is known as Prima Scriptura.
Thank You, Not Worthy.