This must REALLY come as a surprise to the Jews!!
If your ORAL 'tradition is NOT 'written down', then it is VERY capable of being corrupted, just as the OT writings prove.
"...If your ORAL 'tradition is NOT 'written down', then it is VERY capable of being corrupted, just as the OT writings prove"
With all due respect, WRITTEN words are also VERY capable of being corrupted. How many transcripts do we have of Scripture? How many "versions" do we have today, often saying things quite differently when discussing the same verse?
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This must REALLY come as a surprise to the Jews!!
We are not Jews. Christ rejected their add-on written down, made-up traditions of men. See St. Matthew 15 and 23.
The Bible is not a Talisman that has the complete list of the laws to be followed, etc., etc. Surely you've read Romans and Galatians on this point of Christian liberty and freedom from the law?
If your ORAL 'tradition is NOT 'written down', then it is VERY capable of being corrupted, just as the OT writings prove.
On the contrary, writing down the oral tradition is the first step in corrupting it. The second step is translating it.
The Christian faith is something that is lived, not written down in a Holy Book. In living it, we join in the chain of experience of the ages in participating in the rites and mores of a large transnational and transgenerational community. We know we are off the rails on the wrong track when we go against this edifice of ecclesial experience. Which is what makes the Protestant revolt so laughable.