What is the relationship between Christian Tradition and Sacred Scripture?

Answer 1

Tradition and Sacred Scripture are bound closely together and communicate one with the other. Each of them makes present and fruitful in the Church the mystery of Christ. They flow out of the same divine well-spring and together make up one sacred deposit of faith from which the Church derives her certainty about revelation.

Answer 2

Tradition existed prior to the written Gospels. The written Old Testament was kept by the Jews on scrolls and the Apostles used them in their liturgy. The New Testament wasn't written down until at least until 100 A.D. and it took about 9 centuries to gather all the material up and bring it into the book form that we know as the Bible today.
Tradition, is The Word passed down from generation to generation to keep all the doctrines of the Church intact. Luther's problem is he couldn't grasp that concept and rejected it and did the sola scripture idea.
But that doesn't even sound right when your realize the Bible did not magically appear after Jesus's Ascenion into Heaven.
Years passed by as the Apostles and disciples wrote down what they were Divinely Inspired to remember from when Jesus was living with them.
Even one of the gospels states that Jesus did many things that were not written in this book but these were recorded to help you believe.. I think that was the end of the Gospel according to John.

Just like a family has traditions passed down from generation to generation, so has the Catholic Church, to reject it offhandedly like it couldn't have been done, or not done properly enough is rather presumptious. Jesus said he would not let the gates of hell prevail against Her and through all the human mistakes it has stood firm against all the world for over 2000 years there is no other institution that has done the same.

Answer 3

Discussing the Word of God, we have to consider this is the word of God manifested to man in the course of history. It is the Word of God spoken to man and in his specific situation. Now this manifestation of God in the history of man is either oral or written. We are speaking in the manner of its passage from time in history through generations. In written tradition, we call it the Bible, the Holy Scripture. The unwritten or oral came to its passage is being transformed to what we call Sacred tradition. It is logical that not all of God has spoken to man can only be contained in the Sacred books. Passages in the bible per se are sometimes contradictory (not all but there are), and there are bible passages that can be best understood knowing the culture and traditions of the biblical character. For example, the passage "eye for an eye" in the old testament. Why it was promulgated as such, considering the present standards it is a cruel law. But, when one will only go back to the mentality of those times, it is what we call now the lesser evil. Simply because during those times the prevalent practice is that when one tribe hurts a certain individual of another tribe, it was then an all-out-war, it became the war no longer of two individuals or families, it was then war against two tribes or races or nation. To avoid bloodshed, the law was promulgated "eye for an eye". I believe, the same applies with other official documents, every document or laws have its historical backgrounder.

So the Sacred Tradition goes hand in hand with the Sacred Scripture. They are inseparable. In some cases there are passages in the bible which are vague in its definition that can only be clarified when there is Sacred Tradition. For example, the gospel speaks of the early Christians of the "breaking of the Bread". What is this breaking of the bread? How do they really break the bread? If it is only a simplified version of the breaking of bread, why it is included in the bible as one of the activities of the early Christians along with the listening to the 'Word of God"? So, Sacred Tradition illumines us that the passage of the Bible concerning the breaking of Bread is what today Christians call the "Eucharist".
God is speaking to us not only on his written Word we call the Holy Scriptures, God is speaking to us also through the Sacred Tradition, the unwritten Word of God manifested on its peoples' life through generation to generations.

Answer 4

Scripture is a product of Sacred and Apostolic Tradition.

Answer 5

Boy am I going to get into trouble with this answer. I personally believe that religious tradition is the worst enemy that Christ and Christianity has ever had. Each denomination believes differently according to their personal interpretation of the scriptures and they all seem to think that they are right. I AM A CHRISTIAN (sorry for yelling) but because I do not practice so called traditions of Christianity I am an outsider. God did not make churches, Christ did not make churches...or traditions. Man made churches. Need I say more?

Answer 6

Very good question (I gave you a star).

The first answerer summed up tradition very well, but I have to defend the Biblically based premise of Christian Tradition.

'"Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter" [2 Thess. 2:15]. From this it is clear that they did not hand down everything by letter, but there is much also that was not written. Like that which was written, the unwritten too is worthy of belief. So let us regard the tradition of the Church also as worthy of belief. Is it a tradition? Seek no further.'

Answer 7

Is the living teaching authority of the Church, to which were entrusted the oral teachings of Jesus and the Apostles, along with the authority to interpret Scripture correctly. Sacred tradition is everything Jesus spoke about during His ministry.There would have to be thousands of books to contain everything Jesus preached and taught.

Answer 8

Sacred scripture gives you hints of the "Anointed One." And christian tradition tells of his words and deeds.

Answer 9

The Bible got here from custom earlier it replaced into written down. Divine revelation comes from both Sacred Scripture and Sacred custom they're therefore both major. Church custom or practices can replace. Apostolic custom is the divine note in oral form. Jesus replaced into relating the custom of the Pharisees - the exterior practices of piety and purification (clean and unclean).

Answer 10

There shouldn't be any. Jesus and the apostles taught against religion as a tradition. They taught much more about the personal relationship that God wants to have with us and how to nurture that. Our relationship with God is supposed to be a living, growing one with individual guidance and insight -- within the bounds of the Word of God, the Bible --, not a set of repetitive formalities.