how are tradition,sacred scripture and thechurch linked together?

Answer 1

That is one of the issues which divides the Catholic and the Protestant churches. The Catholic church gives the traditions that have developed over the 2000 years of its existence the same weight as scripture. They believe that the church is guided by God through their human leaders. That the papal declarations and the decisions of church councils should be used in determining church doctrine. They look to the scriptures, but as understood and expounded by the church leaders.

Protestants can only trace their history back to the 16th century. They were born out of a rejection of the church traditions and papal rule. So they hold a doctrine of "solo scriptura", or "only the scriptures". They look to the Bible as their only source for understanding Christian doctrine. If they can not find in it "the Word", then it is not a Christian doctrine. However, with no one central leadership to help in the understanding of the scripture, with the Protestant tendency to allow anyone who wants to (whether they have any training in the Bible or not) start a church, and with a book of over 3.6 million words to try to understand, this believe has caused a lot of division and misunderstanding within the churches.

A church build on traditions and human leaders is open to corruption by those men. A church build on a shallow understanding of the Bible is open to division and misinterpretation of the Bible. What needs to be found is a balance between the doctrines and understanding of the Bible that has come from 2000 years of scholars and ministers studying the book and the current inspiration of the Word for God's people today. To use the words from the scripture itself, it is finding a balance between the "logo" (Greek for the whole understanding of the word of God) and the "rhema" (Greek for the living, personal understanding of the word of God).

Answer 2

A complete code of life

Islam is a religion, but not in the western meaning of religion. The western connotation of the term "religion" is something between the believer and God. Islam is a religion organizes all aspects of life on both the individual and national levels.




Islam organizes your relations with God, with yourself, with your children, with your relatives, with your neighbor, with your guest, and with other brethren. Islam clearly establishes your duties and rights in all those relationships.

Islam establishes a clear system of worship, civil rights, laws of marriage and divorce, laws of inheritance, code of behavior, what not to drink, what to wear, and what not to wear, how to worship God, how to govern, the laws of war and peace, when to make peace, the law of economics, and the laws of buying and selling. Islam is a complete code of life.

Islam is not for the mosque only, it is for daily life, a guide to life in all its aspects: socially, economically, and politically.

Islam is complete constitution. Thus Islam keeps the Muslim away from confusion, because Islam is logical and rational. Allah is one. Allah is one Allah has no sons. Allah is not trinity. Allah does not kill to save. No mediation is required between Allah and man. Islam organizes human nature, but does not go against it. There is not a class of clergy in Islam; nor is there celibacy. Islam is complete code of human life.

Answer 3

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And as for the muslim yea right and pigs fly