Cut it down... Traditions of Men - Apocrypha

Spiritual application of Matthew 7:19 KJV: Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down...Show more

1 Corinthians 2:13 KJV: Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

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Prayers for the dead (Expiation for the Dead)

The Church Teaches, Documents of the Church in English Translation, by the Jesuit Fathers of St. Mary’s College.

Professions of Faith

“I likewise profess that in the Mass a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice is offered to God on behalf of the living and THE DEAD…” P-8

USCCB – 2 Maccabees 12:39-46

46 “Thus he made atonement for the dead that they might be absolved from their sin.”
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/2maccab....

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition – 2 Maccabees 12:39-46

46 “to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins.”
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Luke 9:60 KJV: Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

Proverbs 8:36 KJV: But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

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Salvation by alms giving

United States Conference for Catholic Bishops – Sirach 3:30, Tobit 12:9

30: “As water quenches a flaming fire, so almsgiving atones for sins.”
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/sirach/3

9: “for almsgiving saves from death, and purges all sin.”
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/tobit/12

Psalms 37:39 KJV: But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

Jonah 2:9 KJV: Salvation is of the LORD.

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Practice of magic spells (Witchcraft)

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition – Tobit 6:5-8

5: "Then THE ANGEL SAIDto him: Take out the entrails of the fish, and lay up his heart, and his gall, and his liver for thee: for these are necessary for USEFUL MEDICINES."

8: “And the angel, answering, said to him: If thou put a little piece of its heart upon coals, the smoke thereof driveth away all kind of devils, either from man or from woman, so that they come no more to them.”
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Leviticus 10:1 KJV: And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.

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Saints in heaven interceding

The Church Teaches, Documents of the Church in English Translation, by the Jesuit Fathers of St. Mary’s College.
Veneration of Saints

Council of Trent, 1545-63.

“First of all they should instruct the faithful carefully concerning the intercession and invocation of the saints, the honor due to their relics, and the lawful use of images… it is a good and useful thing to invoke the saints humble and to have recourse to their prayers and to their efficacious help to obtain favors from God.” P-214

New American Bible (Revised Edition) – 2 Maccabees 15:11-14

“Then in the same way another man appeared, distinguished by his white hair and dignity, and with an air of wondrous and majestic authority. Onias then said of him, “This is a man[b] who loves his fellow Jews and fervently prays for the people”
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The Church Teaches, Documents of the Church in English Translation, by the Jesuit Fathers of St. Mary’s College.

Tradition and Holy Scripture

The Council of Trent teaches that the revealed truths of faith and morals are contained in “written books and in unwritten traditions that the apostles received from Christ himself or that were handed on… from the apostles under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit…” P-41

Tradition of Apostolic Succession (Hierarchical orders and its tie-in to traditions / Apocrypha)

“Secondly, there is active tradition: that is, the act of teaching this revealed doctrine that has to be believed. Thirdly, there is the teacher of the doctrinal that is, the body of men who, as successors of the apostles in each succeeding age, constitute the authorized teaching authority within the Church.” P-41

Council of Trent 1545-63

“Tobias, Judith, the Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, and Maccabees…” P-45

“Moreover, if anyone does not accept these books as sacred and canonical in their entirety, with all their parts, according to the text usually read in the Catholic Church …but knowingly and willfully contemns the traditions previously mentioned: let him be anathema.” P-46