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To: presently no screen name

The quote is from Dei Verbum, I did not include the part of the written Scripture being one part of the fullness of faith.
“In His gracious goodness, God has seen to it that what He had revealed for the salvation of all nations would abide perpetually in its full integrity and be handed on to all generations. Therefore Christ the Lord in whom the full revelation of the supreme God is brought to completion (see Cor. 1:20; 3:13; 4:6), commissioned the Apostles to preach to all men that Gospel which is the source of all saving truth and moral teaching, (1) and to impart to them heavenly gifts. This Gospel had been promised in former times through the prophets, and Christ Himself had fulfilled it and promulgated it with His lips. This commission was faithfully fulfilled by the Apostles who, by their oral preaching, by example, and by observances handed on what they had received from the lips of Christ, from living with Him, and from what He did, or what they had learned through the prompting of the Holy Spirit. The commission was fulfilled, too, by those Apostles and apostolic men who under the inspiration of the same Holy Spirit committed the message of salvation to writing. (2)

But in order to keep the Gospel forever whole and alive within the Church, the Apostles left bishops as their successors, “handing over” to them “the authority to teach in their own place.”(3) This sacred tradition, therefore, and Sacred Scripture of both the Old and New Testaments are like a mirror in which the pilgrim Church on earth looks at God, from whom she has received everything, until she is brought finally to see Him as He is, face to face (see 1 John 3:2).”


1,146 posted on 12/07/2010 1:02:46 PM PST by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: lastchance
EVERYTHING God wants us to know about Him, about our salvation is written. Jesus is THE WORD, the WORD made flesh. HE always was, and will be. HE is not tradition. Evil attaches itself to good - that how it survives.


1,155 posted on 12/07/2010 1:10:45 PM PST by presently no screen name (."Thus you nullify the Word of God by your tradition that you have handed down." Mark 7:13)
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To: lastchance

Jesus is The Word, He says come to HIM - His Word.

Oral tradition says comes to me.


1,157 posted on 12/07/2010 1:13:39 PM PST by presently no screen name (."Thus you nullify the Word of God by your tradition that you have handed down." Mark 7:13)
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