If you are suggesting that I accept the bible as the word of God because of Jewish or any other tradition, you are absolutely incorrect...
You think The Gospel of John is a part of Scripture? Very good.How about the Gospel of Thomas? Or the Didache? Once again, the canon of the New Testament was settled by Sacred Tradition. The very making of the New Testament Canon was a development of doctrine.
Certainly not in my case nor millions of others...
The bible I believe is the word of God did not come thru Africa as the Catholic bibles do...The bible I read and trust comes from manuscripts that agree with the earliest translated bibles which were the Old Latin Bibles which came from the Greek and Hebrew of the Jews of the bible...
The letters that Paul and the others were distributing to the churches are what my bible comes from and the book of Thomas certainly is not in there...
The O.T. canon mentioned in the N.T. was established long before Jesus showed up...The N.T. canon was established by those who passed out the books and letters during the lifetime of the apostles...
The early church fathers write of the books of the bible...The only canon of a bible that came from your religion is a re-write of the original canon...
So without Tradition there would be no Canon of Scripture.
I think you mean Catholic tradition...And as CynicalBear pointed out, that's unbiblical...So there's absolutely no reason to believe it...
It was Tradition that came first, and gave rise to Scripture. Tradition is not just some unnatural "growth" or tumor that got attached to the Church in the ages after the Gospels were written.
The bible tells us exactly how it worked out...And no, it was not a 'growth or tumor'...It was GOD...
Joh_14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
And if the Holy Spirit were not teaching reliably through Oral Tradition and through such structures as Church synods and councils, the 27-book New Testament would never have existed, or would have passed out of circulation just as innumerable ancient books passed out of circulation and were forgotten forever. Thanks be to God.
Oh brother (sister)...I guess God should thank you for saving the day for him...
Psa 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Psa 12:7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
Thank you but I'll takes God's word over any from your or another's religion, any day...
Thank you for taking the Bible from the Catholic Church!