What is tradition really?

[Pathway2]

what is Tradition? how does it work with scriptures.

 

[MT1926]

what is Tradition?

The word tradition (Greek paradosis) in the ecclesiastical sense refers to the thing (doctrine, account, or custom) transmitted from one generation to another.

It can be oral or written.

how does it work with scriptures.

The way it works with scripture is that it first of all tells us what scripture is and what is to be contained in scripture. Jesus did not write anything down nor did he command His Apostles to write anything down. What they wrote down in the Bible was based on Oral traditions. The Bible tells us that not everything was written down, therefore we know that some oral tradition must still remain. The table of contents in the Bible is actually not part of the Bible and therefore if it was not for oral traditions handed on we would not know which books belonged in the Bible.

Finally, the oral traditions help us understand the meaning of the Bible and come to a proper interpretation of what it contains. Without these oral tradition the Bible can be interpreted to mean what ever we want it to mean.

Just my 2 cents

Hope this helps,

God Bless

 

[JamalChristophr]

Sacred Tradition is the oral teaching of Jesus Christ handed down to his apostles, who in turn handed it down to their disciples (the early Church Fathers), and then to the next generation, and then finally to us… it is the oral teaching of Jesus Christ handed on to the Apostles and the Church, which carries equal weight with the Church’s book, the Bible…

(taken from Catholic Bible 101 website)

 

[ziapueblo]

Tradition is the living continuity in the Church (the Bible, the Creed, decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, the writings of the fathers, the Canons, the service books, icons, doctrine, church government, spirituality, art and Liturgy). Among the various elects of Tradition, a unique prominence belongs to the Bible, to the Creed and to the doctrinal definitions of the Ecumenical Councils: the things we accept as absolute and unchanging, something that cannot be cancelled or revised. The writings of saint Athanasius, for example, does not occupy the same position as Gospel of St. John.