BIBLE AND THEOLOGY FORUM





Welcome!  You are at BibleAndTheology.com, which is the general forum for BibleAndTheology.org.  Persons are invited to post on Bible and Theology (widely interpreted).  Some postings may be chosen to be reposted on BibleAndTheology.org.  Give & receive love here. If you post here, please do not use "Anonymous" or the like. Choose your own screen names, but do not use one that you know is already being used by someone else. Please: 

1. You may debate with any ideas posted, but do not post objections to the topic, style, spelling, use of capital letters, or grammar of anyone's posting.  For example, you may debate whether the moon is made of green cheese, but kindly refrain from reviling a poster by telling him that it is politically incorrect to discuss green cheese.   

2. Do not post complaints or attacks vs. other posters.  

3. No obscene language,cuss words, or blasphemy may be used.   

4. Send complaints privately by e-mail to NellPatKay@hotmail.com.  If your posting is deleted, it could be because it violates forum rules or is just chosen for a short run on the forum.  

  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . If you want the password, register your screen names by e-mail, as password may be needed again if problems arise on the Forum. CHECK OUT THE search function, which is good: it checks the content of the postings.


Note that if you paste onto the Forum, for some reason Bravenet may change your quote marks and apostrophes into something else, like little boxes or funny U's.   Thanks for coming, participating, and for showing love .


Return to Website  > Index
Recent Posts
 
BIBLE AND THEOLOGY FORUM
Start a New Topic 
Author
Comment
t
Thunkful
Jan 16, 2012 - 9:47AM
PHONY RCC SACRED TRADITION

RCC SACRED TRADITION THEORY

There are some times in the Bible where -paradosis (tradition) is used in a positive light & sometimes in a neg. In the gospels tradition is always bad, human sayings which were wrongly exalted above Bible. Peter also bad-mouths vain traditions. A few times in the epistles of Paul, tradition is used for teachings of prophets, particularly by Paul himself, who says in Gal 1-2 that he got his gospel direct from Christ, not from human tradition or even prophets.

Based on what Paul says about receiving prophetic tradition one cannot derive a theory that the sayings of the "Ch Fathers"/RCC saints are the Word of God or even authoritative. None of these "saints" existed & the Paul-sayings are not reference to future revelation. Neither is a guarantee that what Paul said would be perfectly remembered over the coming centuries & that Ch Fathers would write them down.
So the attempt to grab hold of Paul's coat-tails & shoe-horn in an approval of Ch Father sayings, is phony.

The only saints in the NT are all believers -- never any special class of persons called "saints." You are either a saint or an ain't.
It seems to me that the RCC has a major problem with syncretistic idolatry; it has statues & saints who are worshipped. Their words are raised to the status of "Sacred Tradition." This seems to be more of idolatry; since it is making the words of saints like God's word.

It seems that no one has had the guts to try to bind saints' references to apostolic sayings into the Bible. I have read about the earliest stuff u can find after the NT, & I don't recall any of the "Apostolic Fathers" quoting apostolic sayings outside the Bible & calling it the Word of God.

Return to Website  > Index