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Someone on the Ship of Fools Discussion boards posted a link to a site which tells us that Catholics aren't Christians. One of the pages is about Tradition is bad because it is not in the Bible. However, I was amused by the following as it shows lack of Greek!

1 Corinthians 15:3, 11 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

Where does it say, "Listen to Catholic Tradition?" Relevance please? Where does it say this was passed down by oral tradition?

When one consults the greek of this chapter, one sees that the verb translated delivered in the version used (I suspect KJV) is παρεδωκα which the cunning morphological analysis tool at perseus tells me means give or hand over to another, transmit. Now one of the Greek words for tradition is παραδoσις. The trouble is that English doesn't have a verb which goes with tradition. Welsh has traddodi which is what one does with traddodiad. So it is precisely saying that Paul received the tradition orally!