Tradition its bearing on scripture Its need from Apocalypsis

http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/2005/0510bt.asp

Considerable latitude is necessary to continuously reinterpret and refine tradition in the wake of the continuity of revelation. All will be disclosed so scripture relates and new Scripture will be written, in ways we cannot conceive of. Is public revelation closed? What is meant by the term closure? Are we to experience another opening? My other posts point out this distinct possibility.

I will not post this as a dogmatic assertion, but am an expectant and eager onlooker waiting in the offing.

Complex Relationship Some truths of Tradition are directly stated in
Scripture, such as God’s creation of the world. the Bible comes right out and
says, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen. 1:1).Other
truths of Tradition are not stated directly in Scripture but are implied clearly
by the biblical author. For example, while the Bible doesn’t come out and say
that the Holy Spirit is a person rather than a force, it is implied in numerous
passages, such as those in which the Spirit is depicted as speaking to people
(e.g., Acts 13:2), and the biblical authors meant us to understand this.Some
truths of Tradition can be inferred from Scripture even though the biblical
authors did not clearly imply them. For example, Christ having both a human will
and a divine will can be inferred from his being "true God and true man" (CCC
464). Various biblical passages state or imply that he is true God and true man,
but in none does the biblical author state or imply that he had two wills. We
have to figure that out by inference.A truth is sometimes alluded to or
reflected in the text even though it can’t be proved from the text alone. The
Immaculate Conception may be reflected in what Gabriel says to Mary in Luke
1:28, and the Assumption may be reflected in the wings the woman is given in
Revelation 12:14, but you couldn’t prove these truths from the text alone.Some
truths are presupposed by Scripture, such as many of the particulars of how the
sacraments are celebrated—their proper form, matter, ministers, and recipients.
The sacraments are mentioned in the Bible, but the biblical authors didn’t give
many details about their administration. They assumed that the reader would look
to the practice of the Church for the answers to these questions. For example,
the sacrament of reconciliation is discussed, but the words that need to be used
to make an absolution valid are not.Some truths are not in Scripture at all; not
even a piece of the truth in question is indicated. As we saw earlier, the
truths that public revelation is ended and that there will be no more apostles
fall in this category.Often it isn’t easy to decide which of these categories a
truth falls into, but it is beneficial to think the question through, consider
whether the Scriptural basis for a truth is found in the literal or the
spiritual sense of the text, and consider how much confidence in the truth can
be drawn from the Bible compared to how much must be drawn from Tradition.While
these considerations may be useful as an apologist explores the relationship
between Scripture and Tradition, he ultimately will have to decide how he thinks
they fit together. So far, the Church has left him considerable latitude.