Commentary on Catechism of the Catholic Church The Relationship Between Tradition and Sacred Scripture

Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture communicate with each other and flow out of one common source that is God. They become one thing that is revelation, and move towards the same goal that is the salvation of mankind. Both Sacred Tradition and Scripture make present the mystery of Christ who promises us to be with us until the end of time. Sacred Scripture is the speech of God put down in writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. While Tradition transmits in its entirety the Word of God entrusted to the apostles and their successors so enlightened by the Holy Spirit, they may faithfully preserve, expound, and spread it abroad by their preaching.

The Church does not derive her certainty about all revealed truths from Sacred Scripture alone, rather from Sacred Tradition as well. Both Scripture and Tradition must be accepted and honored with equal sentiments of devotion and reverence. Now Sacred Tradition and the various theological, disciplinary, liturgical, and devotional traditions are truly distinct. While the former is of God, the latter are expressions made by man of the Sacred Tradition, under which the Church may retain, modify, or even abandon or reject those traditions if found to be incompatible with the Word of God.

A response, perhaps this is because the Catechism has not expounded more fully on the problem of Tradition, but I consider it a problem that there is no way to truly prove the authenticity of Tradition apart from Sacred Scripture. There is a necessity for a greater supernatural grace of faith in the Catholic individual to accept Sacred Tradition than it is for the reformed to accept Sacred Scripture alone apart from Sacred Tradition. For without Sacred Scripture, revelation cannot be verified other than what exists in the mind of men. This necessitates that certain men be bound by the Holy Spirit in their intellect through some supernatural grace to preserve these teachings as a community and transmit it to the next generation in fullness as well. 

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