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Are these Sacred Tradition inspired-inerrant also?
The Sacred Tradition itself is inspired and inerrant (of course or else it could not have produced the Bible) but not all of the products of Sacred Tradition enjoy this charism.
Is there a list of these Sacred Traditions?
There is only one Sacred Tradition, and its content is found most fully in the Catholic Church. It is the Person of Christ Himself, ultimately, but it is expressed in a wide variety of different ways.
How are the Sacred Traditions different from traditions?
Traditions (such as Bible reading, praying, etc.) come about in response to Sacred Tradition.
 
Are these Sacred Tradition inspired-inerrant also?
Of course.
Is there a list of these Sacred Traditions?
Jesus and the Apostles did not teach in “lists”.
How are the Sacred Traditions different from traditions?
Sacred Traditions come from God. Other traditions are customs that come from culture, ethnicity, and people’s ways of doing things.
No one knows what the “many things that Jesus said and did that are not written in them” are?
Only as many as we need to know to follow Him. We know enough to realize that not all of HIs revelation is in the NT.
What specific Sacred Traditions are you referring to? Can you give me a couple of examples?
“I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I have delivered them to you” (1 Cor. 11:2)

The Gospel was passed by word of mouth and there is no expiration date on the commandment to remember what was delivered. When Jesus promised the Apostles that the Spirit would guide them into all truth, He meant that He would protect them from corrupting the Teachings.
No catholic can ever know “the fullness of that Tradition” since the church itself has opened itself up to a so called developing understanding of scripture (Mary’s assumption is on example of this and unknown in the second century for example) and you don’t know when or where Mary will appear again and give some new revelations as she supposedly in the past has.
I think you are mixing your apples and oranges. The Deposit of Faith was made “once and for all”. What develops is our understanding of it. Mary does not give “new revelations” that were not given by Jesus and the Apostles. She does not appear to reveal “new doctrine”.
Here is what He said on this: John 5:39-40
39 “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;
40 and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.

Notice that it was on the basis of the Scriptures and not tradition that they could know Him and have life.
The Scripture came from the Sacred Tradition. If they had listened the Sacred Tradition that Jesus was trying to give them, they would have come to HIm, and found life. The Scriptures testify to Jesus. That is their purpose. The purpose of the Tradition is to teach about the testimony.
 
The MASS is one Sacred Tradition. Sure, from people to people and custom to custom, there are minor modifications to encompass that custom accordingly, but the 3 main aspects remain UNCHANGED.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ…and you must be ON YOUR FEET when God’s word is read.

The Offering, (Eucharist) as the Sacrifice decreed by God of Abraham and detailed to Moses

Holy Communion, as God feeds His people from The Last Supper.

For all other Scared Traditions taught by God (Jesus Christ) unwritten in Scriptures, see the Magisterium of The Catholic Church.

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Are these Sacred Tradition inspired-inerrant also?
guanophore
Of course.
Do you have some support for this from church documents?
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Is there a list of these Sacred Traditions?
guanophore
Jesus and the Apostles did not teach in “lists”.
Paul certainly used lists at times to make his points. Galatians 5:22-23 and Colossians 3:8-9.
My request for some kind of list goes to the heart of this issue. Sacred Traditions are claimed by you and others and i’m not sure exactly what all these are. Secondly, knowing the origins of these Sacred Traditions is also an important issue so we can see from where they come from and why. Without this kind of info it makes your claim to Sacred Traditions quite weak since it seems you don’t know specifically what they are.
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How are the Sacred Traditions different from traditions?
guanophore
Sacred Traditions come from God.
How is that determined if they are from God or man?
Other traditions are customs that come from culture, ethnicity, and people’s ways of doing things
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No one knows what the “many things that Jesus said and did that are not written in them” are?
guanophore
Only as many as we need to know to follow Him. We know enough to realize that not all of HIs revelation is in the NT.
You don’t know either what these “many things that Jesus said and did that are not written in them” are? You and others who claim this have yet to show what Jesus said outside of the NT.
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What specific Sacred Traditions are you referring to? Can you give me a couple of examples?
many things that Jesus said and did that are not written in them" are?
guanophore
“I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I have delivered them to you” (1 Cor. 11:2)
Can you give me some examples here of Paul’s traditions?
The Gospel was passed by word of mouth and there is no expiration date on the commandment to remember what was delivered. When Jesus promised the Apostles that the Spirit would guide them into all truth, He meant that He would protect them from corrupting the Teachings.
You still have problems with false teachers coming into the church though. We know also that all the written Scriptures speak the truth. Beyond them we don’t have such confidence especially when we compare later teachings with the Scriptures that are not supported by the Scriptures.

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No catholic can ever know “the fullness of that Tradition” since the church itself has opened itself up to a so called developing understanding of scripture (Mary’s assumption is on example of this and unknown in the second century for example) and you don’t know when or where Mary will appear again and give some new revelations as she supposedly in the past has.
guanophore
I think you are mixing your apples and oranges. The Deposit of Faith was made “once and for all”. What develops is our understanding of it. Mary does not give “new revelations” that were not given by Jesus and the Apostles. She does not appear to reveal “new doctrine”.
Is this part of the “fullness of the Truth” that catholics speak of?
 
Sacred Tradition is to tradition as Western Civilization is to art and technology.
 
I think that justasking is saying that he knows without a doubt that there is nothing else or nothing more that has happened outside of what is written in the Bible. everything that Jesus said and did is written in the Bible. every single thing that the apostles did and said is written in the Bible. it amazes me. that someone that was born yesterday know this. the catholic church who was there from the beggining does not know anything she is just making all this up.

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Do you have some support for this from church documents?
We have already been over this ground, ja4, and we have agreed that the Scripture is inspired-inerrant. Since it was produced from Sacred Tradition, how could the source be deficient? The Teaching of Jesus, which is what comprises the Sacred Tradition, cannot be errant. Otherwise you would have to say that the Gospels the Apostles preached before they were written were errant! :eek:
Paul certainly used lists at times to make his points. Galatians 5:22-23 and Colossians 3:8-9.
Yes, and the Church also uses lists at times to make some points. All of Sacred Tradition cannot be reduced to a “list”, just like the Gospel Paul preached cannot.
My request for some kind of list goes to the heart of this issue. Sacred Traditions are claimed by you and others and i’m not sure exactly what all these are.
It is not possible for you to access these, ja4. They can only be seen by persons of faith.
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Secondly, knowing the origins of these Sacred Traditions is also an important issue so we can see from where they come from and why. Without this kind of info it makes your claim to Sacred Traditions quite weak since it seems you don't know specifically what they are.
Speak for yourself, ja4. It is you who does not know specifically what they are, neither shall you know, because you have denied that they exist. You are like the people that insisted the world was flat, in spite of evidence to the contrary. You have been told repeatedly that the Source of the Sacred Tradition is the Teaching of Jesus and the Apostles. You have been told that the NT was derived from these Teachings. You reject this information, so of course it seems “weak” to you. 🤷
How is that determined if they are from God or man?
You have already stated that you consider them ALL to be “speculations of men”. You make no distinction between Sacred and cultural traditions.
You don’t know either what these “many things that Jesus said and did that are not written in them” are? You and others who claim this have yet to show what Jesus said outside of the NT.
Jesus commissioned His Apostles with “all power” to teach and to make disciples. They passed this authority on to their successors. The Teachings of Jesus are held and taught the same as they were from the day He ascended.
Can you give me some examples here of Paul’s traditions?
That the disciples should submit to the authority that God placed over them, which was transferred from Apostolic authority by the Rite of Ordination.
You still have problems with false teachers coming into the church though.
It is ok, ja4. You don’t have to draw attention to yourself in this regard. We are all aware of your presence and purpose here. 👍
We know also that all the written Scriptures speak the truth.
The written scriptures do not “speak”, ja4. People “speak”. The reason Jesus put people in charge of teaching instead of the scrolls is because they are so easily misunderstood by the ignorant.
Beyond them we don’t have such confidence especially when we compare later teachings with the Scriptures that are not supported by the Scriptures.
When you use the word “we” what you are trying to communicate is that “true Christians” (Bible only) see it this way, and that Catholics, because they see it differently, are not “true Christians”.
Is this part of the “fullness of the Truth” that catholics speak of?
The appearances of Mary are not considered part of the Deposit of Faith. They confirm and support that Deposit, just as do the writings of the Saints, and other fruit produced by the faithful.
 
I think that justasking is saying that he knows without a doubt that there is nothing else or nothing more that has happened outside of what is written in the Bible. everything that Jesus said and did is written in the Bible. every single thing that the apostles did and said is written in the Bible. it amazes me. that someone that was born yesterday know this. the catholic church who was there from the beggining does not know anything she is just making all this up.

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No, he admits that Jesus said and did things that are not in Scripture. He just denies that any of them are relevant. Whatever he cannot find in Scripture is “speculaton” or not relevant to salvation.
 
No, he admits that Jesus said and did things that are not in Scripture. He just denies that any of them are relevant. Whatever he cannot find in Scripture is “speculaton” or not relevant to salvation.
Your not entirely correct. Since we don’t know specifically what else Jesus or His apostles taught or did outside the NT (there is no evidence for what this was) then we can’t say what it was. If you think you know what it was then you are going to have to show it your documentation. That has never been done.
All that we know what Jesus and His apostles taught can only be found in the NT writings.
 
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Originally Posted by justasking4
Paul certainly used lists at times to make his points. Galatians 5:22-23 and Colossians 3:8-9.
guanophore
Yes, and the Church also uses lists at times to make some points. All of Sacred Tradition cannot be reduced to a “list”, just like the Gospel Paul preached cannot.
Not so. Your church could easily make a list of what all the “Sacred Traditions” are.
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My request for some kind of list goes to the heart of this issue. Sacred Traditions are claimed by you and others and i’m not sure exactly what all these are.
guanophore
It is not possible for you to access these, ja4. They can only be seen by persons of faith.
Nonsense. What you are promoting is some kind of gnosticism. I suspect you really don’t know yourself what all these
Sacred Traditions are. If you did you would have produced them by now.
 
guanophore;3412368]
Originally Posted by justasking4
We know also that all the written Scriptures speak the truth.

guanophore
The written scriptures do not “speak”, ja4. People “speak”.
If what you say is true then what am to make of James 4:5 which says—Or do you think that **the Scripture speaks **to no purpose: “He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”?

Even wisdom speaks to us. Proverbs 8:1-8:

Does not wisdom call,And understanding lift up her voice?
2 On top of the heights beside the way,Where the paths meet, she takes her stand;
3 Beside the gates, at the opening to the city,At the entrance of the doors, she cries out:
4 “To you, O men, I call,And my voice is to the sons of men.
5 “O naive ones, understand prudence;And, O fools, understand wisdom.
6 “Listen, for I will speak noble things;And the opening of my lips will reveal right things.
7 “For my mouth will utter truth;And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8 “All the utterances of my mouth are in righteousness;There is nothing crooked or perverted in them.
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guanophore
The reason Jesus put people in charge of teaching instead of the scrolls is because they are so easily misunderstood by the ignorant.
No doubt Christ gave teachers to His church that they might teach the truth of the Scriptures. What you fail to understand is that there are also false teachers in own church who have led many catholics astray.
 
What i’m referring to is the teachings of the apostles which for a time was oral but is no longer.
Less than half of the Apostles wrote anything; the rest then had it orally. How many Apostles can you think of that had anything written significantly besides Peter, John, and James? Not much really. So as it stands, only these men’s words were ever put into writing; the rest were still oral.
It is their writings that is the authority for the church and not their oral teachings.
If that were so then the Apostles who preached to other lands, who did not write had no authority then. But no Protestant makes that absurd claim; even Protestants admit these Apostles had much authority even if they haven’t written anything. St. Ignatius of Antioch, first generation Christian, points to the bishop for the flock’s guidance; he didn’t say in any way to not listen to any man and just read a document; not at all. So it’s his word (a testament of early Christianity) against your 21st century view. We don’t need to know who wins.
 
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Originally Posted by justasking4
What i’m referring to is the teachings of the apostles which for a time was oral but is no longer.
Milliardo
Less than half of the Apostles wrote anything; the rest then had it orally. How many Apostles can you think of that had anything written significantly besides Peter, John, and James? Not much really. So as it stands, only these men’s words were ever put into writing; the rest were still oral.
That may be true and we can only go by what we have in the written Scriptures and not by what they may have taught orally since we no record of what that was.
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It is their writings that is the authority for the church and not their oral teachings.
Milliardo
If that were so then the Apostles who preached to other lands, who did not write had no authority then. But no Protestant makes that absurd claim; even Protestants admit these Apostles had much authority even if they haven’t written anything.
I agree. However its not about authority but how do we know what Jesus and His apostles said and did unless it was written down.
St. Ignatius of Antioch, first generation Christian, points to the bishop for the flock’s guidance; he didn’t say in any way to not listen to any man and just read a document; not at all. So it’s his word (a testament of early Christianity) against your 21st century view. We don’t need to know who wins
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Not sure what you are getting at here. Can you clarify?
 
That may be true and we can only go by what we have in the written Scriptures and not by what they may have taught orally since we no record of what that was.
There is certainly record of these oral practices by way of how a community has developed certain standards and forms, and early Christianity is no different. Justin Martyr by 150 A.D. would mention how they would gather at the day of the Sun (Sunday) for worship; the most one can get of this Biblically is Acts 20:7, but at that time in Acts such a gathering was not yet the official day of worship (Christians still gathered together with the Jews in worship on Saturdays) until the break of Judaism and Christianity.
I agree. However its not about authority but how do we know what Jesus and His apostles said and did unless it was written down.
Writings only confirm what was already taught, not the other way around. That’s how it worked during ancient times. The oral traditions were the first to come and then later on they were written down for posterity’s sake, thus the observation of John in Revelation that he is writing it down for posterity. We can thus argue that he already taught those things before he began the task of putting it into writing.
Not sure what you are getting at here. Can you clarify?
The point is simple: early Christianity was not limited to a book for authority, but the last word has always been the bishop’s. “Where the bishop is, there let the people be…” He saw his authority as bishop not just as one passed down by the Apostles, but really something that is great that its authority by itself should reverberate with the people. In short, it is the last word.
 
Milliardo;3415947]
Originally Posted by justasking4
That may be true and we can only go by what we have in the written Scriptures and not by what they may have taught orally since we no record of what that was.
Milliardo
There is certainly record of these oral practices by way of how a community has developed certain standards and forms, and early Christianity is no different. Justin Martyr by 150 A.D. would mention how they would gather at the day of the Sun (Sunday) for worship; the most one can get of this Biblically is Acts 20:7, but at that time in Acts such a gathering was not yet the official day of worship (Christians still gathered together with the Jews in worship on Saturdays) until the break of Judaism and Christianity.
What i’m referring to is that we have no record of their oral teachings. These practices you refer to can be found in the written Scriptures.
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I agree. However its not about authority but how do we know what Jesus and His apostles said and did unless it was written down.

Milliardo
Writings only confirm what was already taught, not the other way around. That’s how it worked during ancient times. The oral traditions were the first to come and then later on they were written down for posterity’s sake, thus the observation of John in Revelation that he is writing it down for posterity. We can thus argue that he already taught those things before he began the task of putting it into writing.
I agree in part. However, what do we make of this statement in John 20:30 which says–Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;

What were these “other signs” He performed if they are not written down?
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Not sure what you are getting at here. Can you clarify?

Milliardo
The point is simple: early Christianity was not limited to a book for authority, but the last word has always been the bishop’s. “Where the bishop is, there let the people be…” He saw his authority as bishop not just as one passed down by the Apostles, but really something that is great that its authority by itself should reverberate with the people. In short, it is the last word.
Can the bishop ever be wrong?
 
What i’m referring to is that we have no record of their oral teachings.[/qote]
Yes we do. They are contained in the living Tradition of the Catholic Church.
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I agree in part. However, what do we make of this statement in John 20:30 which says–Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;

What were these “other signs” He performed if they are not written down?
Are you denying there are “other signs”? What do you think they are?
 
Jasking knows one thing. he could not know what they are, for his religion is new and they can not know it. unlike our Church which was given the responsibility of safeguard the Scriptures, interpret, and lead the faithfull, this can affirm what these are for they were there. succession. there is a reason why it is done this way. Jesus built a Church if you are not in it, you could not know it. for the promise is for this Church.
 
Jasking knows one thing. he could not know what they are, for his religion is new and they can not know it. unlike our Church which was given the responsibility of safeguard the Scriptures, interpret, and lead the faithfull, this can affirm what these are for they were there. succession. there is a reason why it is done this way. Jesus built a Church if you are not in it, you could not know it. for the promise is for this Church.
If you are referring to John 20:30 then your church does not know what they were either.

Secondly, if your church has the responsiblity to interpret the Scriptures why has it only infallibly interpreted less than 20 verses?
 
I’m a protestant planning to make his way into the catholic church. Just thought I’d say hi to everyone. I got a question though. Is** it hard to practice Catholicism in the house with a family who’s mostly 7th day adventists? M**y mother is definitely the one to watch out on, but lately she has apologized saying I should visit where I choose to worship God. I’m hoping that’s a good step, although I haven’t told her I’m interested in joining yet and taking the RCIA classes. But overall, I’m wondering what difficulties I might face if I’m the only one practicing in the house. Thanks!
That’s like asking “is it hard to marry a black girl in a family full of the KKK?”… Yes it’s very hard, no ther Church on Earth hates the Catholic Church as much as the Seventh Day Adventists.
 
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