Sacred Tradition or Tradition of Men?

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I would postulate that the relationship the Church has with God, as His people is, first of all, the source of Sacred Scripture. However, this is not to refer to Sacred Scripture simply as the writing, but also the events behind the scriptures and/or what they describe/point to. The Most Holy Trinity then intervenes to correct the problematic interpretations of this relationship with God through the Incarnation. Then the Trinity guides us further to read and correctly interpret the scriptures. Then It calls us to respond, this begets our Sacred Tradition. Through Sacred Tradition, the Sacred Scriptures were compiled[1], passed on, further analyzed (their fruit continually being rediscovered and harvested), and rightly interpreted through the Holy Spirit moving coherently through the many. Further, the Sacred Scripture, in turn, is more fully understood and obeyed, not just for what it says but all that it means. Scripture validates and reasserts the tradition, thus revealing that the tradition is not a tradition of men but the commands of Christ in its fullness.[2] In this way and by this means the Church transcends history as all the Faithfull watch as the Church carries its mission forward.[3] Thereby, they are begotten and perpetuated through the same divine source.[4] This sacred oneness flows from its creator's unity, just as goodness, truth, and beauty are things that praise Him.[5] It is clear that all God has/is/will make good things which a good.[6] 

The Church is one Body in Christ (seen only in the Holy Spirit).[7] This Church proclaims, again and again, with all its heart the love of Christ for all.[8] The Church proclaims His guiding hand (symbol of the Holy Spirit) by which He has/is/will lead His children home, the story of salvation, the one sacrifice for the many. 

Out of this same wisdom, She teaches the particular application of the law through councils guided by the Holy Spirit in the gathering of the successors of the apostles. For example, the doctrine on just war, weapons of mass destruction, and experimental/unnatural reproductive practices were not issues of reality in the times of the newborn Church. It seems good to the Holy Spirit and the Church that the successors of the apostles exhort the Church Militant, just as the Apostles did in the first centuries as recorded in the Bible. In this teaching, the Church serves and proclaims the Sacred Scriptures in their application to life. This is what the Church refers to as the Magisterium, which is derived from the correct living out of Sacred Scripture and Tradition, as discussed by the Church often in councils.[9] All moral principals, social recommendations, and ethical concerns are triangulations of the aforementioned.  In this way, the doctrine is developed/grown/extrapolated explicitly through councils. For our time, the Catechism of the Catholic Church reveals nearly all of the Magisterium, in and as it applies to modern-day issues. In this way, doctrine does not find its limit in the word of a page. Rather, theology is a study and description of the the spiritual realities encountered by living a relationship with God and all that entails. The lack of perfect congruence between the Gospel is often explained this way; each of the authors are describing how they see God, what they remember he was like, what He asks of us, etc. in their own words and understanding. In the times of the early Church, the faith was passed by oral tradition. [10]
"'Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture, then, are bound closely together and communicate one with the other. For both of them, flowing out from the same divine well-spring, come together in some fashion to form one thing, and move towards the same goal.' Each of them makes present and fruitful in the Church the mystery of Christ, who promised to remain with his own 'always, to the close of the age'".[11]
FN:
  1. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 120.
  2. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 81, 97.
  3. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 770.
  4. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 80.
  5. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 41, 2500.
  6. cf. Ibid.; Genesis 1:31
  7. Romans 12:5; Catechism of the Catholic Church, 787-791.
  8. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 766.
  9. cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 95-100.
  10. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 80-84.
  11. 2 Thessalonians 2:15
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I am a Theology major attending Holy Apostles College and Seminary. I am a Knight of Columbus and a Newman Ambassador for Pius XII Newman Center.

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