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\n<\/span>Sometimes things are made more clear by picturing some sort of image for them. For Catholics, authority is like a stool with three legs. The three \u201clegs\u201d are Bible, Church, and tradition. These all agree with each other. The Bible teaches a lot about true, apostolic tradition. Here are some of the main passages where we see this:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
1 Corinthians 11:2<\/b> (RSV) . . . maintain the traditions even as I have delivered them to you. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
2 Thessalonians 2:15<\/b> . . . stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
2 Timothy 1:13-14\u00a0<\/b><\/span>Follow the pattern of the sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus; <\/span>[14] <\/span><\/span>guard the truth that has been entrusted to you by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
2 Timothy 2:2 <\/b><\/span>and what you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Jude 3<\/b><\/span> . . . <\/span>contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
When the Bible talks about bad tradition, it reads differently. Jesus often scolded the Pharisees, a religious group of His time, for being too into laws without also teaching them in terms of love. They believed in some false traditions. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
So Jesus would say things to them like, <\/span>\u201c<\/span><\/span>why do you transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?\u201d <\/span><\/span>(Matthew 15:3). Here, the true tradition is called \u201ccommandment of God\u201d and the false <\/span><\/span>one <\/span><\/span>is called \u201c<\/span><\/span>your\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/span>tradition\u201d (that is, against <\/span><\/span>God\u2019s\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/span>tradition).<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus <\/span><\/span>gives\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the same thought: \u201c<\/span><\/span>You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition <\/span><\/span>of men<\/i><\/span><\/span>. . . . You have a fine way of rejecting the <\/span><\/span>commandment of God<\/i><\/span><\/span>, in order to keep <\/span><\/span>your <\/i><\/span><\/span>tradition<\/span><\/span><\/span>! . . . thus making void the <\/span><\/span>word of God<\/i><\/span><\/span> through <\/span><\/span>your\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/span>tradition <\/span><\/span>. . .\u201d (Mark 7:8-9, 13)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nSt. Paul, <\/span>the great apostle,<\/span>writes in a similar way <\/span>in Colossians 2:8: \u201c. . . <\/span>according to human tradition, . . . and not according to Christ.\u201d <\/span><\/span>The\u00a0<\/span><\/span>good, true tradition <\/span><\/span>was the one <\/span><\/span>\u201caccording to Christ.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Paul <\/span><\/span>also wrote<\/span><\/span>: \u201c<\/span><\/span>If you put these instructions before the brethren, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished on the words of the faith and of the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>good doctrine\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/span>which you have followed. [7] Have nothing to do with <\/span><\/span>godless and silly myths<\/i><\/span><\/span>. . . . <\/span><\/span>(1 Timothy 4:6-7)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
The spoken gospel and the writings <\/span>of the apostles that <\/span>eventually <\/span>became the Bible<\/span> were <\/span>part of the <\/span>totally<\/span> good, authentic Christian <\/span>t<\/span>radition.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nWhen the first Christians went out and preached the Good News <\/span>(the gospel) <\/span>of Jesus Christ after Pentecost, this was a tradition <\/span>of preaching, or the spoken word<\/span>. Some of <\/span>this preaching made it\u00a0<\/span>in<\/span>to<\/span> the Bible (<\/span>for example, <\/span>in Acts 2) but most did not (see John 20:30; 21:25). <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
This is w<\/span>hat \u201c<\/span>turned the world upside down,\u201d not <\/span>so much <\/span>the words<\/span> of the New Testament (most people couldn\u2019t read <\/span>in those early days of the Church,<\/span> anyway).<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
W<\/span>e must conclude, <\/span>then, that the\u00a0<\/span>word<\/span> \u201ctradition\u201d is not <\/span>always <\/span>a \u201c<\/span>bad\u00a0<\/span>word\u201d in the Bible. <\/span>It\u2019s a \u201cgood word\u201d more often than it is a bad one. There is a famous saying: \u201cdon\u2019t throw the baby out with the bathwater.\u201d When we find some bad things about something that is mostly good, if we act sensibly, we get rid of the bad parts of it but not <\/span>all <\/i><\/span>of it. It would be like finding some fat on a chicken leg and throwing away the whole leg.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Tradition works the same way. Because some people distort it and start false traditions, doesn\u2019t mean there are no good traditions. Both the Bible and the Church teach us this, and we can and should always rely on them.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nIn Catholicism, Scripture and <\/span>t<\/span>radition <\/span>(along with Church authority) <\/span>are <\/span>bound up together, just as smaller cords can combine to make a very strong rope. <\/span>They have been described <\/span>by the Church <\/span>as \u201ctwin fonts of the one divine well-spring\u201d (<\/span>r<\/span>evelation, <\/span>or God\u2019s inspired message to us)<\/span>, and cannot be separated, any more than two wings of a bird <\/span>or two sides of <\/span>a<\/span> coin can be separated<\/span>. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
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