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 Under the authority of Christ I write this down. A week ago I received the testimony of a person regarding the true nature of the Catholic Faith and the Sacred Tradition of the Catholic Church. The testimony is as follows. When Moses went up to Mount Sinai for 80 days he received the Torah, first the Torah Shebal Peh and from that we have the Torah Shebichtav. Torah Shebal Peh is the Oral Torah, while the Torah Shebichtav is the written Torah derived from Torah Shebal Peh. God has promised for Torah Shebal Peh to be preserved to the end of time, but not Torah Shebichtav. At the same time, God did not allow all of Torah Shebal Peh to be written down, only parts of it that will be known as Torah Shebichtav.

Torah Shebal Peh is literally Living Scripture, it is Christ Himself and the People of God, be it the believers of the Old Covenant or the Catholics of the New Covenant. Christ Himself does not change, but the people change. They develop their understanding of Torah Shebal Peh that is the ultimate revelation of God, and so they deepen their understanding of the Faith and of God. The development of Torah Shebal Peh continued until it reached its fulfillment of revelation in Jesus Christ. Jesus revealed the fullness of Torah Shebal Peh in His Person and for He is the fullness of Torah Shebal Peh itself. When He founded the Catholic Church, He transmitted Himself as the fullness of Torah Shebal Peh and now this transmission obtains a new name, Sacred Tradition, the nature however does not change.

The problem which exists is that there is a misunderstanding on what Torah Shebal Peh is. Torah Shebal Peh is not the manmade traditions that Christ condemns in Mark 7:8, instead it is simply the revelation of God transmitted orally until the end of time. There are those who think that Torah Shebal Peh is found in the Talmud or the Mishnah, but that is not the full story. Sometime after the death of Christ, Rabbi Yudah Hanasi lost faith in God's promise that He will preserve Torah Shebal Peh and wrote down all of Torah Shebal Peh, keeping it locked in time. Yudah Hanasi did not recognize that God did preserve the Torah Shebal Peh, as the Sacred Tradition of the Catholic Church. 

Eventually there becomes a mixture of Torah Shebal Peh, that is the authentic revelation of God, and the human perception of Torah Shebal Peh. Thus we obtain the blasphemous abomination that is Rabbinic Judaism, with their blasphemies against the Lord Jesus Christ in the Talmud. The Talmud is not the Torah Shebal Peh, but a human perversion of Torah Shebal Peh. Where is Torah Shebal Peh now? It is in the Sacred Tradition of the Catholic Church, in fact it is the Sacred Tradition of the Catholic Church. 

There is also another problem, the Catholics seem to have overfocused on Sacred Scripture, not being aware that Sacred Tradition is the true source of all of our faith. Remember that in the beginning 90 percent of the people are illiterate, yet the Catholic Faith remains strong for centuries. The reason people become focused on the Sacred Scripture more than Tradition is simply because of epistemic problem and the problem of faith. On what do we base our faith? By seeing the Word of God? No, but from hearing the Word of God as proclaimed by Romans 10:17. The epistemic problem on the other hand is simply the problem of how we know things, where people are more comfortable with what they can clearly see, rather than having to rely completely on faith.

In the end it is perhaps arguable that this writing itself contains a trace of Torah Shebal Peh. You can indeed write parts and traces of Torah Shebal Peh but you cannot never write it down completely. As it is in fact the complete revelation of God, the Word of God, and thus is God Himself. A final disclaimer before I close this writing, to say that it is written under the authority of Christ simply means that Christ gave me the authority to write this down. It in no way implies infallibility, all readers are to understand and make a decision about this text. Respond as you desire, for you are the final judge of your own beliefs. May the Lord bless us all, amen.