[pgyanke]

Mark 7:8
For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

But what of the Traditions of God? When the Apostles were sent forth, they didn't have Bibles with them. The only Scripture they brought was the Old Testament. The New Testament was the word of their testimony... the Tradition born out of the Lamb of God Himself.

Revelation 22
18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

How many books are there in the Bible? It's an important question to answer your challenge because Revelation is but one in a library of books. And, by the way, there is no way Revelation could stand on its own. It is a summary of the history of salvation completely impenetrable without the rest of Scripture and Tradition.

[jjotto]

Mark 7:8 For laying aside the commandment of God...

Why is that first part of the sentence so little explained?

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

>”Revelation... impenetrable without the rest of Scripture and Tradition.”

Give me one of the latter that I can depend on.

[American Constitutionalist]

Jesus was reminding the Pharisees that in so doing by their traditions of man, that they were in fact laying aside the commandments of God, to honor thy father and mother.

He said in verse 9 in that setting while talking to them "
9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. "

So Jesus was not talking about how everyday people were not keeping God's commandment, but how the religious leaders were hypocrites in not keeping God's commandments by holding into their own man made " traditions " .

In other words, they were in fact rejecting God's word and doing what they wanted to do and force others to hold to it even if it was not commanded by God to do so.