What are the "Traditions of Men" to be done away with and does it refer to cultures and national (people's) identity?
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The "Traditions of Men" refers to the pharisaic and sadusaic interpretations of scripture that focus solely on the letter and not the whole spirit of the Law, basically all forms of Judaizing heresy are what Christ was talking about. Its how we have jews thinking they are fulfilling the law by autistically wearing phylacteries on their foreheads and right hands, when the passage they are trying to emulate meant to meditate on the Law at all times ("they shall be and shall move between thy eyes") and to put it into practice ("thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand"). It also refers to traditions created by introducers of Novelty like Muhammad and Martin Luther, who twisted scripture to justify their own heretical practices. What that passage wasn't referring to was Holy Tradition, which is divinely inspired and therefore Tradition handed down from God. One of the reasons that Christ came was to restore the Holy Traditions the Pharisees had usurped with their Novelties.
Do not beat yourself up over the meaning of what translated foreign words may or may not represent. The original authors never intended for you to read them outside of their mother tongue.
Jesus did not leave us with any written documents, he left us with Teachers and Leaders imbibed with the Holy Spirit.
If your theology doesn't line up with what early Christians did and what the Early Church Fathers taught, can it really be called Christian?
Yeah, im surprised that phenomenon hasn't been talked about more frequently, it honestly looks more like demonic possession or madness to me than an actual gift of the holy spirit. Its pretty obvious scripture means "foreign languages" when it says "tongues", not unintelligible gibberish. Why would Christ, who is the Incarnation of Reason, "gift" his followers with insanity or confusion?