Thank you for proving that Tradition from onr speaker to one hearer is a truth!
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WRONG.
I didn't prove that, at all.
God's Word is God's Word.
UnBiblical, extraBiblical tradition
is still
MAN'S TRADITION.
Different species entirely.
Lemme ask you this, Quix. The group of people translating the Scriptures into Seranon--isn't that adding a "layer" of tradition. Suppose they goof here or there--get a word wrong. Translate in a way that, say, makes it sound in Seranon like Jesus is a different God than the Father.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure they are very conscientious in their goal. In my field I've come across American Indian Bibles (like Eliot's in Massachusett)--some of which were literary gems. But it's extremely difficult to get it right and impossible to get it perfect. We can't even have a perfect English Bible, and thousands of people have been working on that for 500 years.
Maybe you don't see this translation issue as problematic. But it *is* in some sense extra-Biblical, no? Isn't someone making choices/decisions for someone else's Scripture? And might that not color how those people read and understand the text?
Maybe we should teach the Seranon Greek. :)