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Tradition is what has combated heresy throughout the history of the Church. The Church Fathers continually refer to what has been handed down from the Apostles.
The Trinity, the Two Natures of Christ, The Virgin Mary, The Church are all Traditions passed down from the Apostles. It is just that protestants believe some of the Oral Traditions and not others. Are you really surprised by this?
Why would God, the Holy Spirit, provide extra-biblical Tradition which contradicts the explicit, written Bible which all Christians believe to be the Word of God?
In particular, what oral Traditions do Protestants believe?
Most protestants believe
In the hypostatic union each of the two natures of Christ continues unimpaired, untransformed, and unmixed with each other.
Thank you. Is this a provable Oral Tradition or an interpretation of scripture? I believe it to be the latter, of course.
If you could show me where Jesus promised us a book, the I'll take your question seriously. I'll even extend my challenge to the Apostles. Which Apostle promised us a book.
Now, I can show you where He promised an authoritative and teaching Church. So you believe some of what the Church teaches and you don't believe some of what it teaches. Are we supposed to fall off our chairs because you reject something
Go for it....popcorn ready
Thank you for your prompt response. I see, as anticipated, that you cannot defend your allegation that the hypostatic union is an Oral Tradition.
What you cannot prove, of course, is the promise of a religious bureaucracy administered from a headquarters in Rome, Italy.
Wait, are you telling me there is nothing in scripture that explains the Dogma I stated. Really, nothing....too funny
Hmmm, Authoritative and teaching without a hierarchy?....please ask a serious question.
I did. How do you know that Christ promised a religious bureaucracy administered from Rome, Italy and not, say, Jerusalem or Constantinople, or Moscow?
Nice dodge, but it won't cut it. Still not a shred of evidence on your part that the hypostatic union is an Oral Tradition.
Our Lord didn't specify, unless you are adding to His Word
Our Lord didn't specify, unless you are adding to His Word
You said "I believe the latter. I'm just asking you to back it up. You can't, I already know this.
Now, if you want to read Ephasus in 431 there is lots of reference to what the Fathers taught.
Thank you for agreeing with me
Thank you for agreeing with me. Thus, your denomination has no more, or less, validity than any other denomination making claims of Oral Tradition.
Sure the Church does. She settled these disputes over 1,000 years before any denomination came into existence
And then what happened? Did the Nestorians go their own way then? Did the Oriental Orthodox go their own way then?
You can check Wikipedia. I've noticed you've been getting your theology and history from there lately.
Well, it seems to me that that is what you do, not I. However, the other points stand in any case. The verse you cited doesn't tell us what traditions were being referred to and there is no evidence for the vague claim that whatever the church invents was what the Apostles handed down. The most believable concept is that they handed down orally what was to be found, either then or later, in Sacred Scripture.
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