Oral Tradition

Also known as Biblical Lore, Prophetic Lore, or God's Word Lore, is the body of lore that deals with religious traditions, God's 'word' as revealed through prophecy or spiritual insight, and written scriptures. The Bible, for all its glory, is the written collection of Oral Tradition by Martin Luther and a host of other Christian redactors throughout history. 
Most Tribes have Oral Tradition to some extent. 
== Facts: ==
-Different Tribes have different Oral Traditions, but the hands down largest body of Oral Tradition is commonly referred to as the Judeo-Christian tradition. 
-The Bible cannot be fully understood without knowledge of the Christian oral tradition, particularly at the time when the Bible was written and compiled.
-Oral Tradition both changes and does not change, at least according to many of its proponents. Stories and themes remain the same, but exact strictures and ways of doing things are updated to match the times. At least that's the theory, anyway. It helps to explain the various Old Testament laws that no longer apply, and similar intellectual quibbles. 
-The reference to "He shall be called a Nazarene" cannot be found in the Old Testament, yet it was "spoken by the prophets" (Matthew2:23). This prophecy, which is considered to be "God's word", was passed down orally rather than through Scripture. (See first Reference below for more)
-People collect and interpret Oral tradition better as they live and become more experienced with God's Spirit and movements. 
-The Oral tradition is very much alive in the Order of Prophets and segments of the Order of Priests. It saturates the entire collection of Ecclesiastical Orders. 
-There are two extremes in dealing with the Oral tradition. Liberals embrace it totally, accepting anything purported to be from God. Conservatives deny it as inventive and heretical. Most Adepts usually fall somewhere in between. Most modern Xtrians hold the Bible to be the final word of Oral Tradition. 
-Tribes such as Catholicism, Eastern Orthodox, Anglicanism, Wesleyanism and others are still heavy users of the Oral tradition.
-Oral Tradition makes scripture and tradition relevant and necessary, and authoritative, but it places them after the role of God's movement among the people. Scripture is determined by prophecy and spiritual insight, either by those in the past or in modern times. 
-The Order of Fundamentalists reject the Oral Tradition as innovative and modern. They hold the written Bible, specifically the Bible of the Protestant Reformation, to be the sole authority for Christians. 
-The Oral Tradition is more specific than The Old Ways Lore. The Old Ways deal with practices and folk belief, where else the Oral Tradition deals with the body of 'revealed words' through prophecy and genuine mysticism. 
-For those who still believe the Oral Tradition is on-going, they believe that morality equals holiness. That is, a group or individual should be taken authoritatively depending on how morally right and holy they are. 
== References: ==
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sola_scriptura#Critiques
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prima_scriptura
-https://skepticalteacher.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/the-embarrassing-truth-about-the-bible-its-still-being-edited/
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