RomeSweetHome wrote:The traditions you Just mentioned have pagan roots!
But I have no problem because like you say they dont viod Gods truth. You always seemed to have a problem with Traditions that you thought had pagan roots all of a sudden the ones you quoted are acceptable?
how do you determine a valid tradition?
Who determines it you, or your church?
Again this is individual interpretations, and determinations.
The traditions I mentioned are traditions found in the RCC and if these are pagan then how many other RCC traditions are pagan?
Now can we stick to the development of the Protestant canon?
What I see as the purpose of this thread is why the Gospel of Thomas, and the Gospel of Mary are not included in the Protestant Canon since Light posted:
Let us remind ourselves that there were a few other books in the running to be accepted as canonical, so therefore the acceptance of certain books was down principally to tradition, the reason we know the four NT Gospels were genuine accounts was because tradition relayed reliable testimony.
The NT Gospels are accepted because they can be shown to be based on God's truth not because they are "traditionally" accepted as God's truth.