Tradition is for the Byrd

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In Reformed Theology, we hold firm to the tradition of true doctrine - we believe it's invaluable to aiding an understanding of our faith and more importantly we believe scripture to be the supreme and normative source of what we believe. Yet why are so many evangelicals leery of combining the words: 'tradition' and 'true doctrine'? In the end, they help define divine realities, and more importantly, lend accurate descriptions of God. Maybe more alarming is not the lay person who misunderstands traditional doctrine, but those who don't preach it from the pulpit or teach it from the lectern. It's necessary that the Church connect scripture to the traditional doctrinal statements lest she get swept away by every wind of novel doctrine.The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals would like to offer you a free MP3 download entitled "The Developing Tradition: From the Reformation Until Now". Discount is applied at checkout.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.
0:25.9	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:31.6	When it comes to interpreting the Bible, there are many ways to go wrong.
0:36.3	We run into passages that may not agree with us, text that
0:39.9	seem to not agree with each other, and verses that are simply strange. Let's listen in to Carl,
0:46.0	Amy, and Todd, and hear how we should be using the deep-rooted traditions of the Christian faith
0:50.8	to help our biblical interpretation today.
1:01.7	Well, welcome to Mortification of Spin. The gang's all here, the three most popular people in the Reformed Evangelical World. My co-hosts Amy Bird and the Reverend Todd Pruitt,
1:08.3	and I am Carl Truman, a teacher at Westminster Seminary and Pastor of Church
1:12.1	just outside Philadelphia. Today we want to reflect upon the importance of doctrine and tradition.
1:20.0	Those are two very important concepts in the church. And yet, recent debate about the Trinity,
1:28.2	the recent ongoing debate about the Trinity,
1:30.4	has indicated that not all evangelicals seem to understand
1:34.6	either the importance of doctrine
1:37.6	or how doctrine is connected to the church's tradition of teaching.
1:44.5	Often as Protestants, we think that tradition has a horribly Roman Catholic sound to it.
1:50.1	It seems to imply that scripture is less than authoritative, whereas in actual fact, of course,
1:56.3	what historic Protestantism has always held to is a scripturally sourced and regulated form of tradition.
2:05.4	The difference between us and Roman Catholics is not that they hold tradition and we reject it.
2:11.5	It's that they hold to a tradition that can stand somewhat independent from Scripture,
2:15.6	while as for us, scripture is both the source
2:19.5	and the norming norm of our tradition. And on the doctrine side of things, sometimes
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