As Catholics, we recognize God's revelation of Himself in three ways:
- Scripture (The Bible)
- Tradition (Primarily the Liturgy--Mass--and the Sacraments)
- The Magisterium (The Church's teachings)
Why do we recognize these three? Because Christianity is a religion of the Word, not of a book. The Word is a person--Jesus Christ. Each of the revelations above is mutually illuminating. Nothing in the three contradict each other, they reveal more about the others. Scripture is the God-breathed written revelation. Tradition is the living worship of God. The Magisterium is the means given by Christ to understand it all.
Ephesians 3:8 To me, the least of all the saints, is given this grace, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ: 9 And to enlighten all men, that they may see what is the dispensation of the mystery which hath been hidden from eternity in God who created all things: 10 That the manifold wisdom of God may be made known to the principalities and powers in heavenly places through the church, 11 According to the eternal purpose which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord: 12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
- Scripture (The Bible)
- Tradition (Primarily the Liturgy--Mass--and the Sacraments)
- The Magisterium (The Church's teachings)
Why do we recognize these three? Because Christianity is a religion of the Word, not of a book. The Word is a person--Jesus Christ. Each of the revelations above is mutually illuminating. Nothing in the three contradict each other, they reveal more about the others. Scripture is the God-breathed written revelation. Tradition is the living worship of God. The Magisterium is the means given by Christ to understand it all.
What's to answer? You posted a lot of words that tell me nothing except that you haven't read my quotations in blue. The Catholic Church clearly teaches contrary to scripture, and brags about it. This is why I wanted to know what the standard is for a Catholic? What is the basis for the religion? If you acknowledge that the church at Rome is beholden to nothing but itself, then I'm out. If you say that the church at Rome is beholden to scriptures, then please show me the scriptures that repeal the 4th Commandment and sanctify Sunday in its place.
"Nowhere in the Bible do we find that Christ or the Apostles ordered that the Sabbath be changed from Saturday to Sunday. We have the commandment of God given to Moses to keep holy the Sabbath Day, that is the 7th day of the week, Saturday. Today most Christians keep Sunday because it has been revealed to us by the [Catholic] Church outside the Bible." "To Tell You the Truth," The Catholic Virginian, 22 (October 3, 1947), 9.