Was there a Pre-Adamite World?

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farouk

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It appears you are being maneuvered into adopting a loose translation of a verse only to defend against someone's corrupted misinterpretation and misuse of it. I don't advise you do that. The context makes it obvious enough that he was talking about their word, and their epistles. By adopting the loose NIV translation here (τὰς παραδόσεις is not even a verb), you allow a simple truth to be stolen from you, as demonstrated by this discussion we're having: The apostles understood the importance of handing down and maintaining the Christian traditions they passed on to future generations. Those who dismiss this notion lay themselves open to the enemy proposing that all tradition is untrustworthy, and therefore not to even be considered.
There can be good, Scriptural traditions, or bad traditions. It depends how the word 'traditions' is used and what it's referring to, really.
 
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Enoch111

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There can be good, Scriptural traditions, or bad traditions. It depends how the word 'traditions' is used and what it's referring to, really.
Correct. *Traditions* (Gk paradosis) means that which is handed down. In the New Testament sense, Christ personally handed down to the apostles (including Paul) the whole body of Christian truth (as revealed in the NT). The apostles handed down these teachings to faithful men, who were supposed to continue handing down biblical teachings from generation to generation.

But just as we see that corruption and apostasy entered into the churches while the apostles were alive (e.g. the seven churches of Asia Minor), before too long the teachings of Christ and the apostles began to be corrupted by the Early Church Fathers (ECF).

While many of their teachings were strictly biblical, some of them were their own misinterpretations. For example elders (presbyters) were changed into priests without any biblical authority. Then later on these priests were given the power for the absolution of sins! Then these priests were given the power to literally make a bloodless sacrifice of Christ every day on an altar of their own invention (the Mass). And on an on it went.