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I am going to be talking to a fundamentalist on sola scriptora and all that. And with Gods help I can get to him. But, I know that the one thing that will proboly come up is “Whos tradition? Yours? Mine?” How would I answer that? Thanks and God bless.
 
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I am going to be talking to a fundamentalist on sola scriptora and all that. And with Gods help I can get to him. But, I know that the one thing that will proboly come up is “Whos tradition? Yours? Mine?” How would I answer that? Thanks and God bless.
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I would browse through the catholic.com stuff on Scripture and Tradition… There is a link on the front page. Many of their articles contain examples of the arguments used by Protestants and Fundies.

The below article might be particularly helpful because it explains Tradition as defined by the Catholic Church… I believe the biggest misconception is that tradition is being defined differently between Catholics and non-Catholic Christians:

catholic.com/library/Scripture_and_Tradition.asp

“Sacred or apostolic tradition consists of the teachings that the apostles passed on orally through their preaching. These teachings largely (perhaps entirely) overlap with those contained in Scripture, but the mode of their transmission is different.” - source: the article linked above.
 
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I am going to be talking to a fundamentalist on sola scriptora and all that. And with Gods help I can get to him. But, I know that the one thing that will proboly come up is “Whos tradition? Yours? Mine?” How would I answer that? Thanks and God bless.
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Since Jesus didn’t write anything down, then all his teachings as given by the apostles in spoken or written form are traditions. I would say Apostolic Traditions.
 
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I am going to be talking to a fundamentalist on sola scriptora and all that. And with Gods help I can get to him. But, I know that the one thing that will proboly come up is “Whos tradition? Yours? Mine?” How would I answer that? Thanks and God bless.
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God’s. Taught to the Apostles by Jesus. Preserved without error by the Apostles, and by all their successors. The question you imagine is like asking a person, regarding his memories of his own life, “who’s memories are those?” The Church remembers what she has been taught, through the power of God. It is not a human, fallible memory, for the Church is not, first and foremost, a human institution, but a supernatural organism.
 
The answer to “Whose Tradition?” is: Christ’s. It is His teachings which were handed down to the Apostles and their successors.

Apostolic Tradition precedes the bible. It had to exist for the bible even to be written. And we know from St. John’s own words that not everything was written.
 
I would answer Apostolic tradition.

I stump many protestants when I ask them “Please prove to me that the Twelve Apostles held to your interpretation of scripture”

“but my interpretation is in the BIble”

“Good, show it to me.”

They will show you a Bible verse and it doesn’t say what their interpretation is, OR they show you a Bible verse and interpret it for you.

Of course, many confuse their interpretation of scripture (their tradition) with scripture. You can see right through that easily.

A good example: “Matthew 1:25 says that Joseph knew Mary not until she gave birth. Then afterwards, things changed”

Hold on. Where does it say anything about “afterwards” in that verse? Sounds like you’re adding to the scriptures, for that verse says nothing about afterwards. If it does, please show me where it says so in that verse.

They won’t find that verse.

So they’re taking their interpretation of Matthew 1:25 and making it equivalent to Matthew 1:25, when in reality it is not.
 
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