When I first began writing this article, my intent was to write about the tradition of lighting candles to mark the beginning of the Sabbath. As things progressed, however, I found that there was a far more important issue that needed to be addressed first. This subject lays the foundation for all religious observance in the context of the body of Messiah. There is no way in the limited space of this article that I could possibly expound on all the aspects and Scriptures that relate to this discussion.
Some people feel that all traditions are bad.
Most of those people do not realize that they themselves have traditions, even if they do not call them that. A tradition in and of itself is not an evil thing. There is nothing inherently wrong with tradition. A problem occurs when this tradition takes on the power of law. A law is a rule of conduct that is binding on any person within the community that the law applies to.