Great post - thank you.
The fact that our Lord purposely did not Himself write down His own teachings clearly indicates that He did not intend His followers to ONLY follow Scripture, that is only go by that which was written. This precendent was set by the Jewish rabbis (teachers) in that for centuries their teachings were oral AND TRADITION based - the Old Testament wasn’t written down for many centuries.
Our Jewish ancestors did not subscribe to the false “bible” alone method for teaching and passing down the faith, and Jesus did not change this concept. It was protestants many centuries later who falsely added this idea of sola scriptura onto things. It is a heretical concept and was never practiced in biblical antiquity and is a man made construct supposedly “found” in the bible, even though the bible itself says the very opposite, in the verses laid out in the article.
Again, thanks.
Thank you for the post and ping. Oral tradition, one would suppose, comes with risks. Last year, however, I was quite surprised to factually discover that an oral history of my great, great grandparents was indeed true. Since it had been passed down from one generation to another, with no written record, I had only that tradition to begin an ancestral search. Much to my amazement, everything I had been told proved to be true.