What is the relationship of Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition?

Answer 1

80 "Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture, then, are bound closely together, and communicate one with the other. For both of them, flowing out from the same divine well-spring, come together in some fashion to form one thing, and move towards the same goal." Each of them makes present and fruitful in the Church the mystery of Christ, who promised to remain with his own "always, to the close of the age".

81 "Sacred Scripture is the speech of God as it is put down in writing under the breath of the Holy Spirit."

"And [Holy] Tradition transmits in its entirety the Word of God which has been entrusted to the apostles by Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit. It transmits it to the successors of the apostles so that, enlightened by the Spirit of truth, they may faithfully preserve, expound and spread it abroad by their preaching."

82 As a result the Church, to whom the transmission and interpretation of Revelation is entrusted, "does not derive her certainty about all revealed truths from the holy Scriptures alone. Both Scripture and Tradition must be accepted and honored with equal sentiments of devotion and reverence."

Answer 2

What Is Sacred Tradition

Answer 3

Sacred Scripture is the Word of God written down. Sacred Tradition is the Word of God that was not written down, but passed on down from the Apostles.

Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition together are God's revelation to man. Scripture and tradition complement and complete each other, but never contradict each other.

Answer 4

Sacred tradition is the teaching authority of the living church, which by the way predates the bible for hundreds of years. Christianity is not a religion "of the book". Jesus may have quoted scripture and read scrolls in the temple, but he never carried one around and neither did any of the apostles. Jesus never once instructed for anyone to go therefore and write, he commanded to go therefore and teach. The early church existed for about 400 yrs. with out a bible and had sparse use of any form of the O.T., including the LXX, not to mention any rendering of writings of the apostles or their successors. The bible is very important and authoritative, however, is not a viable substitute for the authority of the church. The bible itself proclaims this truth.
Martin Luther himself lamented that "every milkmaid thinks she knows the meaning of the scriptures"(my paraphrase), after various translations of the bible started surfacing among common folk.
The relation? Sacred Scripture is only part of the tradition we refer to as the Faith. The Faith is what we have because of Sacred Tradition.

Answer 5

both go hand in hand and one does not undermine the power/authority of the other. both compliment eachother and both are neccessary for the other. i think if protestants could grasp this then protestantism would cease and all would come home their roots in the roman catholic church.

(ccc 75-83)
sacred tradition should not be confused with mere traditions of men, more commonly called customs or disciplines. jesus sometimes condemned customs or disciplines, but only if they were contrary to gods command(mk 7:8). he never condemned sacred tradition,and he didn't even condemn all human tradition. sacred tradition and the bible are not different or competing revelations. they are two ways that the church hands on the gospel. apostolic teachings such as the trinity,infant baptism,the innerancy of the bible,purgatory, and marys perpetual virgintiy have been most clearly taught through tradition, although they are also implicitly present in (and not contrary to) the bible. the bible itself tells us to hold fast to tradition, whether it comes to us in writing or oral form(2 thess 2:15, 1 cor 11:2)

sacred tradition should not be confused with customs and disciplines eg. the rosary,priestly celibacy etc. these are good and helpfull things but are not doctrines.

Answer 6

The Bible tells us not to go beyong the written word.

1 Corinthians 4:6
Now, brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, "Do not go beyond what is written." Then you will not take pride in one man over against another.

Scripture is sacred but tradition is not.

Jesus was very critical of the religious leadersof His day which followed traditions which negated the Word of God. That's pretty much the topic of Mark chapter 7.

Traditions which don't contradict the letter of or the Spirit of God's Word are fine, such as let's have Sunday at 9 am and worhsip at 10:30 am.

Traditions which have us doing things contrary to God's Word are wrong.

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Answer 7

Sacred Scripture is the sixty six books of the Bible. there is not any such element as "Sacred custom". properly there is, the Jewish Rabbis in Jesus day had it and Jesus of course rejected it as undesirable coaching in Mark bankruptcy 7. So particular, "Sacred custom" exists in spite of the undeniable fact that it is not any longer sacred and Jesus stated its incorrect, that we could continuously in basic terms carry on with God's word, the Bible. in case you stumble on a church right this moment which teaches approximately "Sacred custom", RUN, do no longer walk away. Pastor paintings

Answer 8

There is no such thing as sacred tradition. No man had the authority to absolve any of God's Law. This encompasses both the Talmud and Catechism.

Answer 9

Some people get married and stay with one partner because it is there religious belief. Some don't have any religious belief yet still do it so you tell me,

Answer 10

I'd say both are important but only one is vitaly important and that's Scripture.