"Tradition" - Is it bad?
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Is Tradition Bad?
It sometimes comes up in religious conversation the notion tradition is a bad thing. This usually is presented from Yeshua’s own statements about tradition as found in Mark 7:1-13. Sha’ul (Paul) spoke poorly of tradition in Galatians 1:14 and Colossians 2:8, as well as Kefa alef (1 Peter) 1:18 by Kefa (Peter).
Mark 7:1-13
1 The P’rushim and some of the Torah-teachers who had come from Yerushalayim gathered together with Yeshua
2 and saw that some of his talmidim ate with ritually unclean hands, that is, without doing n’tilat-yadayim.
3 (For the P’rushim, and indeed all the Judeans, holding fast to the Tradition of the Elders, do not eat unless they have given their hands a ceremonial washing.
4 Also, when they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they have rinsed their hands up to the wrist; and they adhere to many other traditions, such as washing cups, pots and bronze vessels.)
5 The P’rushim and the Torah-teachers asked him, “Why don’t your talmidim live in accordance with the Tradition of the Elders, but instead eat with ritually unclean hands?”
6 Yeshua answered them, “Yesha‘yahu was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites — as it is written, ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from me.
7 Their worship of me is useless, because they teach man-made rules as if they were doctrines.’
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