farouk
Well-Known Member
There can be good, Scriptural traditions, or bad traditions. It depends how the word 'traditions' is used and what it's referring to, really.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.