'Therefore, brethren, stand fast,
and hold the traditions which ye have been taught,
whether by word, or our epistle.'
(2Thess 2:15)
Hello there,
Wouldn't it have been wonderful to be party to all that Paul said, as well as to what he wrote? For just what are the 'traditions' spoken of in the verse quoted above, which the Thessalonians had been taught by him?
Our Lord spoke against the traditions upheld by the Pharisees in Matt. 15:3 (Mar. 7:9), saying that in keeping them, they 'transgress the commandment of God', and made the word of God 'of none effect': and in Matt. 15:6 (& Mark 7:8,9) He gives an example of that. This was in response to the Pharisees criticism of the disciples for not keeping the' tradition of the elders', by eating bread with unwashed hands. Peter also in his first epistle (1:18) speaks of the traditions received from their 'fathers' as 'vain conversation '.
Again, Paul who himself testified in Galatians 1:14 that he had been 'zealous of the traditions of my Fathers,' also warned in Col, 2:8 against 'the tradition of men', which were not, 'after Christ'.
So, just what were the traditions which the Thessalonians received from Paul?
'Now we command you, brethren,
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly,
and not after the tradition which he received of us. '
(2 Thess 3:6)
In Christ Jesus
Chris
and hold the traditions which ye have been taught,
whether by word, or our epistle.'
(2Thess 2:15)
Hello there,
Wouldn't it have been wonderful to be party to all that Paul said, as well as to what he wrote? For just what are the 'traditions' spoken of in the verse quoted above, which the Thessalonians had been taught by him?
Our Lord spoke against the traditions upheld by the Pharisees in Matt. 15:3 (Mar. 7:9), saying that in keeping them, they 'transgress the commandment of God', and made the word of God 'of none effect': and in Matt. 15:6 (& Mark 7:8,9) He gives an example of that. This was in response to the Pharisees criticism of the disciples for not keeping the' tradition of the elders', by eating bread with unwashed hands. Peter also in his first epistle (1:18) speaks of the traditions received from their 'fathers' as 'vain conversation '.
Again, Paul who himself testified in Galatians 1:14 that he had been 'zealous of the traditions of my Fathers,' also warned in Col, 2:8 against 'the tradition of men', which were not, 'after Christ'.
So, just what were the traditions which the Thessalonians received from Paul?
'Now we command you, brethren,
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly,
and not after the tradition which he received of us. '
(2 Thess 3:6)
In Christ Jesus
Chris