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To: HarleyD

What is tradition to you? It is what is common among human hearts that live nearby. No, the word itself is not mentioned, but I don't see that interpretation as aberrant.


104 posted on 12/14/2005 7:05:40 AM PST by annalex
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To: annalex; HarleyD; RnMomof7; suzyjaruki; Johannes Althusius
What is tradition to you?

"Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever." -- 1 Peter 1:18-23

The traditions of men are anything that attempts to detract from salvation by God's grace through faith alone and clutter the heart with non-essentials which ultimately serve only to rob God of His glory.

Tradition is intrinsically tied in with authority. Either we hear the voices of men, or we hear the voice of God.

Tradition is in opposition to true faith which has been given from before the foundation of the world according to the good pleasure of God alone.

Thus faith, unlike tradition, does not require men's righteousness to obtain it because men have no righteousness apart from the inward working of the Holy Ghost in those whom God has regenerated from sons of Adam into the sheep of His flock, by His will alone.

"But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works." -- 2 Timothy 3:14-17.


105 posted on 12/14/2005 10:05:27 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg (Semper eo pro iocus.)
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