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To: MamaB

“Traditions can be wrong but the Bible is always right”.

You’re right. The Bible is always right.

2 Thes 2:15 “Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle” Paul is saying that we continue in the doctrine which was delivered to us by the mouth and writings of the apostles, through the free good will of God, who comforts us with an invincible hope, and that we also continue in all godliness our whole life long.

2 Thes 3:6 “Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.” Paul is saying that if any refused to labour with quietness, or walk in the tradition or the oral instruction which he had given to them when present (2Th 3:10), and subsequently committed to writing (1Th 4:11, 12), they were to note him with censure, and to separate from his company, yet they were to seek his good by loving admonitions.

1 Corinthians 11:2 “Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you” Ordinances-Greek, “traditions,” that is, apostolic directions given by word of mouth or in writing (1Co 11:23; 15:3; 2Th 2:15). The reference here is mainly to ceremonies: for in 1Co 11:23, as to the Lord’s Supper etc. Traditions of public assemblies, containing three points, that is of the comely apparel of men and women, of the order of the Lord’s supper, and of the right use of spiritual gifts.


132 posted on 02/01/2015 10:02:32 AM PST by NKP_Vet
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To: NKP_Vet; MamaB

Why have you never proven that the “traditions” the apostles were talking about are exactly the traditions the Catholic Church claims? Or are you simply putting your trust in those men of the magisterium?


134 posted on 02/01/2015 10:10:40 AM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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