IIRC,
There's only one verse in the entire NT wherein TRADITION
IS REMOTELY positive.
Throughout the Gospels, Christ rails at
TRADITIONS OF MEN--EVEN THOSE ENSCONCED UNDER SOME SCRIPTURAL JURY-RIGGED, RATIONALIZED UMBRELLA
CHRIST RAILS AT MUCH MORE FIERCELY than is allowable hereon.
The RC edifice's magicsterical pile of stinking !!!!TRADITIONS!!!! and doctrines of men are just the sorts of layers of 'buffer' and 'burdens to bear' that Jesus railed at RELIGIOUS POLITICAL PONTIFICATORS against 2000 years ago.
CHRIST DIED TO REMOVE
all such from the spiritual lives of folks who authentically
TRUST IN GOD--AND GOD ALONE as the song goes.
HIS DEATH WAS ACCOMPANIED BY A RENDING OF THE VEIL IN THE TEMPLE.
And centuries of the RC magicstericals have been adding an ever thickening veil to replace it ever since. They just place it more than a little metaphorically on the face of the caraciture of the Magnificent Magical Earth-Mother Mary as an enticement for the millions of folks suffering a MOMMY/DADDY deficit of love as a very clever kind of seduction away from a focus
This tradition thing is another it turns out that you and I seem to literally HATE.
I remember watching “Fiddler on the Roof” and when that song (Tradition) came on, I commented to my wife that it is one of the things Christians want to avoid.
My wife was a catholic for many decades, she still misses some of the “cultural traditions”. We’ve even been to a midnight mass. But she recognises it as cultural, rather than Christian.
Heck, even in the pentacostal movement, I thing that probably 80% of what we consider Christian is really just culture and tradition.
One thing though, we always use a noble fir for our Christmast tree because that is what the Apostle Paul used.
Absolutely right, Quix.
Not to make this a circle back slap, but, that was a good post.
And your last line reminds me of what I read many years ago. No matter how many friends and family you have, when you die, you die alone. And without Christ the other side will be lonely indeed.
1 Cor 11:2
1 Cor 11:23ff
2 Thess 2:15
You're wrong. Again. The more funny colors you use, the more ridiculous your posts get.