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To: Gamecock; aMorePerfectUnion
There you go: that's the key distinction between "Sacred" Tradition and the illegitimate kind. "Sacred" tradition does not involve breaking the commandments of God.

Paul warns against false traditions (e.g. Gnosticism) and yet insists upon true Tradition, an insistence I do not see in your posts:

Corinthians 11:2
I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold fast to the traditions, just as I handed them on to you.

2 Thessalonians 2:15
Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours.

2 Thessalonians 3:6
We instruct you, brothers, in the name of [our] Lord Jesus Christ, to shun any brother who conducts himself in a disorderly way and not according to the tradition they received from us.

Those who reject the core elements believed and practiced by the earliest churches ( the Canon of Scripture, the liturgy, the sacramentality, the devotion to the Communion of Saints, the profound respect for Mary within that Communion of Saints, the attention to an unbroken chain of Apostolic Succession) --- have only a fragmentary grasp of what was handed on to us by the Apostles.

211 posted on 08/10/2016 11:01:09 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Jesus, my Lord, my God, my All.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

**There you go: that’s the key distinction between “Sacred” Tradition and the illegitimate kind. “Sacred” tradition does not involve breaking the commandments of God.***

Except for eating blood, calling no man father, forbidding priests to marry, etc.


213 posted on 08/10/2016 11:11:42 AM PDT by Gamecock (There is always one more idiot than you counted on.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Those who reject the core elements believed and practiced by the earliest churches

Like THESE 7 Catholic churches??


232 posted on 08/11/2016 3:22:35 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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