... , is much different than it was when it was originally assembled. The areas I will address are: 1. Why did I choose this topic? 2. Why is the Oral tradition so significant? 3. Why is it so difficult to determine the scriptures accuracy? 4. How many versions of Genesis are there? 5. What significance does the Old Testament have ... it strikes me as strange that I would read these works from other religions and have never read the basis of my own. Why is the Oral Tradition So Significant? When we think of something being passed down in story form, it conjures up images of people sitting ar...

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... with God. However, before this knowledge was recorded, it was passed on to many generations through story, song and ritual. This is known as 'oral tradition'. The Holy Spirit inspired people to come to understand their experiences with God. It often took people a long period of time to understand their complete ... through the sacrament of Holy Orders. The teaching of the Apostles has always been passed down from one generation to the other. 'Tradition' (always with a capital 'T'), is a special word which speaks of the handing on of the teachings of the Apostles under the Holy...

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... . Divine revelation has occurred gradually. Divine revelation is God's unveiling of Himself and His plan for us. God's plan is revealed to us in the traditions handed down to us. Tradition has two elements, the content of revelation and the process by which the revelation is handed down to us. Content is both the teaching and the practice. Some teachings are ... faith, while some are nonessential. Ultimately, the Church guided by the Holy Spirit decides what is essential and that which is nonessential. The process of tradition takes two forms" oral and written. Scripture, part of the wri...

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... to all people. Luke is believed to be written after the destruction of Jerusalem around AD 80-85. The audience of Luke would have listened to the stories through the oral tradition of the time. Robert C. Tannehill, the author of the Abingdon New Testament Commentary on Luke, believes the 1st century audience was a group of Churches of diverse social composition with varied ... was seated or reclining at the table. Fitzmeyer uses the translation of "kateklithe", which would characterize the dinner as a festive banquet and would situate Jesus and the guests reclining, a banquet tradition ...

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... to Mecca they would also know to pray. Islamic Poetry: Poetry and music were seen as equal to Islamic and local bards or wandering minstrels were the keepers of popular oral verse tradition. Bedouin minstrels had song themes of romantic love, warfare and nomadic life, with a signal rhyme dominating the entire poem. Poetry to Muslims was important in there worship and came ... ...

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... reason to set his words down in some definite form. After the sudden death of Mohammed in 632, Caliph Abu Bakr ordered one of the prophets companions to collect, from oral and written sources, all of Mohammed's utterances (Quran page 225). They were written in the Quran which is basically the "Muslim Bible". The Quran is the written version of the ... teachings that Mohammed preached while he was alive. A second source of guidance for most Muslims is al-Hadith (Tradition), a vast body of transmitted stories of what the Prophet said or did or what was said or done in his presence and so ...

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... . He led the Hebrew people, as ordered by God, out of Egypt, freed them from slavery, and led them to the Promised Land. The Old Testament was first told in oral tradition and was later collected and written down over centuries primarily in Hebrew. The second book of the Christian Bible is the New Testament. Similarly to the Old Testament, the New ... ...

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