Protestant tradition started in 1517 AD. Catholic back to 33 AD to Jesus and Peter. Which is this about?

Question

1 Cor 11: 2
I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold fast to the traditions, just as I handed them on to you.

2 Thess. 2: 15
Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours.

Answer 1

It means that not everything Christ taught is in the bible. Jesus taught by oral tradition, as did the Apostles. There is no "sola scriptura".

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Answer 2

The Catholic Church does not use Holy Scripture as the only basis of doctrine. It could not. The early Catholic church existed before and during the time that the New Testament was written (by Catholics).

There were hundreds of Christian writings during the first and second centuries. Which New Testament writings would become official was not fully decided until about 400 AD.

Catholics believe that the Holy Spirit was guiding the early church (and is guiding the church today) to make the correct choices about things like:
+ The Holy Trinity (which is also only hinted at in the Bible)
+ Going to church on Sunday instead of Saturday (which is actually directly against one of the Ten Commandments)
+ The Communion of Saints
+ Which writings include in the New Testament?

Things that are even more modern like
+ Slavery is bad. Slavery is never declared evil in the Bible. This was one of the justifications for slavery in the Confederate States.
+ Democracy is good. The Bible states that either God should be the leader of the nation like Israel before the kings or kings should be the leader, "Give to Caesar that which is Caesar's." This was talked about a lot during the American Revolution.

This second source of doctrine is called Apostolic Tradition.

Do Christians who do not allow the continuing guiding force of the Holy Spirit to make their beliefs more and more perfect, still endorse slavery as Colossians 3:22 commands, "Slaves, obey your human masters in everything"?

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

He was telling them to stand fast in the beliefs, practices or traditions that they were taught by the Apostles and Jesus. There were misunderstandings and misrepresentation concerning the coming day of the Lord. Apparently someone had led the Thessalonian Christians to believe that persecution they were suffering was not normal, so they thought this was the time for the Messiah's return. Paul dealt with the issue. He is encouraging them to continue in truth.

In 1 Cor 11:2 , is the same thing. Paul is just saying they have been doing a good job by keeping the traditions as delivered to them but he needed to clarify head covering (in terms of positions) and its meaning to the church because some women were not wearing the veil.

In the first century Church, Luke wrote the Book of Acts around early A. D. 60s in Rome.

The Apostles traditions and beliefs certainly would not include such traditions as making the sign of the cross, mixing water with the Eucharistic wine, blessing water to make it holy, or the observance of Easter. Catholic tradition is freely used to supplement the silence of Scripture or to interpret its obscurities.

Where were these traditions recorded? Who are the ancient authors who mention it?

Answer 4

You have been brainwashed, Baby...:

Read your Bible (Acts 15) and you will see that church headquarters was in Jerusalem--Rome was just a small church.

Jerusalem stayed headquarters for a long time, in fact, the first Non-Jewish bishop, and that was Mark. Seems Hadrian banned all Jews from Jerusalem in the early second century.

Where did this Peter/Pope fantacy come from? It was a forged document called THE DONATION OF CONSTANTINE. It was written several centuries after Constantine the Great, and who cares, was he a prophet. Nevertheless, that Latin document (can you imagine a greek writing in Latin?) called the the Pope: VICARIUS FILII DEI and protestants were quick to discover that totals 666 in Roman numerals.

That is not all, there is a secret Bible code that proves Rome is the Abomination of Desolation that Jesus warned us about

Read the Bible code that proves Jesus is the messiah, Rome the Abomination of Desolation, and the timing of the great confllict at: www.revelado.org/revealed.htm

Blessings

Answer 5

the protestants decided to start a new tradition of their own.

They decided thay wanted to read the bible in their own language instead of depending on priests muttering in Latin and the people having no idea what the preists were saying.

If you are English speaking, and your teachers were reading to you in Flemish or Basque, would you stay attentively listening? Probably not.

Answer 6

Catholicism started with the council of Nicea under the Roman Emperor Constantine.

There where always Christinas who held to original teachings, but they gained the title Prodestants in the 1500s. Originally titled "protest-ants" because they defied the doctrine of the Catholic church.

The idea that the Catholic church started with Peter is entirely mis-interpretation.

Answer 7

Jesus and Peter and the other Apostles and the Church which is the Living Body of Christ. Peace be with you.

Answer 8

Neither one. They are talking about the oral traditions of Paul who preached the gospel.

Answer 9

Obviously, whoever wrote that wanted it passed on, and obviously, they got what they wanted.


VLR

Answer 10

christianity started in Israel not Rome.
Jews were the first converts not Romans.
The disciples were Jews not Romans.
Why were christians fed to lions?