Why do catholics follow their man-made tradition over what God's word says?

Question

Mark 7:9
Then he said, "You reject God's laws in order to hold on to your own traditions.

Matthew 15:8-9
'These people say they honor me, but they don't really make me an important part of their lives. Their worship of me is for nothing. The things they teach are only rules that people have made."

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Answer 1

I was raised catholic....but now am born again. they are just raised to believe its right. it is easier...plus they are not envcouraged to own or read a bible at all.

not the peoples fault, bad system

Answer 2

we follow church tradition,matthew doesn't forbid all tradition. our tradition holds from 2000 years of succession from the time of christ, tradition such as oral is still within the church,remember the new testament came some 200 years after the death of christ and thus oral tradition and eye witness accounts made the bible possible. if you read the word in its fullnes you will see that the tradition and teachings of the church are in full concordance with the word of god. all first christians were catholic,and protestants owe the existence of the bible to the first christians/catholics. you can see more on tradition of the church in almost any catholic web site. if you ever attend a mass/liturgy you will maybe notice that the bible is clearly used in the procession,more than once may i say,and the passages are from the old testament,the letters and the gospel,all put into context,something so-called bible christians fail to do, it is easy to pick a verse(s) and argue,but you won't get anywhere untill you seek the truth in its fullness. i own a bible and read it every day. not all catholics do,but neither do all christians. the bible nowhere indicates that the bible is the sole authority of the christian life and the church you are knocking is the church that safeguarded the faith during harsh persecution,and many were martyred for the faith and the protection of the sacred book.

Answer 3

Okay, well this question is based on faulty logic and is therefore skewed. It assumes that Catholic Sacred Tradition is "man-made", for example. It also assumes that Catholics follow Tradition "over what God's word says".

Some questions the asker needs to ask himself:

Why do you assume that Catholic Tradition is "man-made"?

Why do you assume that your interpretation of what Scripture says is the correct one?

Why do you assume that Catholics don't read their Bibles, as opposed to reading their Bibles and coming to a different conclusions about what it says and means?

Why do you hold on to the "tradition" that Catholics are ignorant and deluded and not born again?

Why do people throw up verses out of context and then claim to know the Bible better than the Church who preserved it for them?

As a Biblically well-read and historically well-read Catholic Christian, slanted questions like this are annoying at best and insulting at worst. They slant the answers before they are given, encouraging those who feel the Church is something horrid to become "yes men" to the question, and putting Catholics in a negative light even before we answer.

Remember that old school-yard loaded question: "Have you cheating on tests yet?" The one that assumed you DID cheat on tests, and to which neither a "yes" nor a "no" would clear it up?

This question assumes that a) Catholics follow "man-made" tradition rather than b) following Scripture. That assumption is quite large one to make.

Bekkamom

Answer 4

The tradition followed in the Church is neccesarily, by necesity a tradition made by men because the Church itself is made by men not by angels.
Now, the Church was instituted in the day of pentecost, and Christ gave the authority to St peter to "whatever you bind on earth, will be bound on heaven and what you loose on earth will be bound on heaven, thye sins you forgive on earth will be forgiven on heaven and those you keep will be kept on heaven"

It is obvious that either st peter or any of the original 11 apostles plus St paul were gonna live forever, the batton had to be pased on to someone else! This is the apostolic tradition: Tradition comes from the latin Tradire: to give through, to pass. See?
The bishops are the actual recipients of the authority from the postles themselves. The pope himself is the bishop of Rome, metropolitan of Italy and the Patriarch of the West, titles that are more commonly associated with the Orthodox church, and that is because we are the same church, divided but still the same, One Holy catholic and Apostholic.
I hope the answer was logical enoough to make you see, but think about it and you will understand.

Don't just focus on the catholic church, every church has atradition, except that ours is 2000 years old!

ah and to ICU, what kind of catholic were you? probably not a very good one, is not true that we catholics don't read the bible or that only the priests can give it to us...that is false and libellous.
Besides, who do you think put those books together nd said: "This are the authorized books" which in greek is said "Biblos" plural: Byblia?

Got it, right! The catholic Church!


God bless everyone

Answer 5

The same reason Protestants do. They love their traditions more than God.

How many Christians celebrate Christmas and Easter knowing that it is pagan even if you show them the scriptures not to do this and it displeases God. Even here on YA I have seen many people admit it was pagan in the beginning, but since christians have taken it over then it is okay. That is not what the bible says.

Answer 6

Protestants hang desperately to their unbiblical "Sola Scriptura" heresy because of the fact in the event that they ever examined Sacred custom, they might see the way it dovetails with Sacred Scripture. Then they had ought to study each and every thing else that they are surely particular they "recognize" (sic) approximately Catholicism. as quickly as that technique starts, the completed shaky Protestant homestead of enjoying cards might come tumbling down around them. i've got time-honored lots of people who've began out with the point of proving that Catholicism is misguided -- in basic terms to locate that their own Protestant ideals and doctrines do no longer put off. and that i've got additionally had the exhilaration and the privilege of seeing them supply themselves to Jesus as they became individuals of His real Church in the worldwide. Edit: "Catholics don't think that Jesus is the sole savior of adult men and the sole mediator between God and guy." Sorry to burst your bubble, yet it rather isn't any longer what we've self assurance in any respect. there is in basic terms one ability of salvation, and that's throughout the time of the invaluable Blood of Jesus, shed on the bypass because of the fact the appropriate sacrifice for sin. he's the sole Mediator (guy or woman who settles a dispute) between sinful guy and our Holy God. he's not our in basic terms intercessor (guy or woman who places in a good word with an expert determine), inspite of the undeniable fact that. anyone who prays for yet another person is an intercessor, and the Bible is crammed with references to prayer requests. "What happens whilst Sacred custom (or what Catholics come across as Sacred custom) contradicts Sacred Scripture?" Sacred custom can not contradict Sacred Scripture and the classes of the Magesterium. If somebody have been to assert, "the theory that Jesus is surely the archangel Raphael has been handed right down to us from the early days of Christianity," that of course contradicts what the Bible teaches with reference to the Godhood of Christ. this type of concept may be rejected out of hand because of the fact it rather isn't any longer supported via Scripture.

Answer 7

It was all created by man. Why are you judging other people's religion? What makes you so intelligent that you can see things that Catholics can't? Why don't you admit that you don't know anything that anyone else does. Isn't FAITH a big part of your religion? Doesn't the need for faith imply a lack of conclusive knowledge?

Answer 8

Oh, you know....that little thing called "Pentecost" - where the Holy Spirit came down and filled the Church. Yeah. That.

Yeah....that time before there even was a codified and canonized "God's Word".

Yeah. Then.

When Jesus breathed on His Disciples and said "Receive ye the Holy Ghost"...yeah...go ahead....check yer "Bahble" to make sure. It's there.

Right before the part where he says "Whosoever sins ye forgive, they are forgiven..." - to the Apostles. Yeah. Go on....read it. It's in St. John's Gospel. I'll wait.

Well....that Church still has the Holy Spirit in it. It's still the Body of Christ. I'm a part of that Body.

And as much as it embarrasses me....so are you.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Answer 9

I am sorry to break it to you, but it is not just a Catholic thing.
All organized religions are man made and all follow their man-made doctrines and tradition, to assume that just Catholics do that if you study history of religions you will see that all religions have plenty of flaws.

Answer 10

Gosh, from where did you get your bible translation? It's awful.
So, according to your logic, we've got to follow the scripture, with no tradition through which it is passed. That's dangerous, friend.

Answer 11

How sad. A so-called christian knocking other christians and deigning to explicitly speak for his god.

A fine example of the folly that is religion.