ummm... the Bishops of England, Wales and Scotland are NOT the Catholic Church!!!Armageddon in our lifetime.
"The Catholic bishops of England, Wales and Scotland..."
I'll get my teaching form a different source.
This part of the homosexual agenda to fight off a self-correcting Catholic Church. It sounds like incipient heresy to me.
ummm... the Bishops of England, Wales and Scotland are NOT the Catholic Church!!!Actually, in the '50s and 60's, American Roman Catholics weren't big on the Bible. The texts we used were the Baltimore Catechism and the Sunday Missal, plus Papal Encyclicals.
It wasn't until Vatican II in '62 that the nuns had us reading the Bible, and the RC version at that (Douay), not King James.
Ping
Yes, from now on THEY will be the ultimate authority on God's truth.
Was that approved by HQ?
I don't expect total accuracy from the Times. I don't even expect acceptable accuracy from the Times. If the Catholic Church is now saying that the sun doesn't orbit the Earth, then this should send the evangelicals into fits. The posts here will no doubt be funny and if experience is any indicator, they will turn anti-Catholic quickly.
I don't know why anybody would be surprised. It's not like 99% of "Bible-believing" Christians today actually believe the Bible is 100% accurate. If they did, there would be a whole lot of "smitings" that aren't taking place now. Ever read the covenant law from Exodus 21-23?
This does NOT appear to be issued by the Vatican.
The Catholic Church existed before the Bible. The Bible was intended to contains all the truth necessary for salvation. It was not intended to be a verbatim scientific history.
I always turn to the Times to get my Catholic teaching. (/sarcasm)
Frankly, this is a pretty dumb statement, especially the bit where they say which parts of the Bible are true and which are false. It sounds as if they think they are the Jesus Seminar.
Augustine gives different takes on these matters at different points in his life, but his treatise on Genesis represents his most mature view: That we should read the Bible literally wherever possible, and figuratively where it clearly is not literal.
If the Bible says that the sun rises, that is a figure of speech, which we still use every day, even though we know that the sun doesn't rise but the earth spins.
If the Bible says that the whole world was drowned in a flood, then most Catholics would probably say that it's not sure if that statement is literal or not. Maybe a large flood, maybe the whole of Mesopotamia, maybe the Black Sea let loose, we just don't know. To say that it is a only myth, however, is just foolish.
To say that the statement that Eve was made from a rib taken from Adam's side is false, or a myth, is even more silly. "With God, all things are possible." If God wanted to take a rib and transform it into a woman, that's His business. It just isn't within the purview of any bishop to say that this verse is simply false. God can perform a miracle any time He chooses.
Bishops can and do err, from time to time. When the Arian heresy spread, nearly all the bishops in Christendom joined the wrong side, and Athanasius was left almost alone. But he prevailed.
Frankly, this is a pretty dumb statement, especially the bit where they say which parts of the Bible are true and which are false. It sounds as if they think they are the Jesus Seminar.
Augustine gives different takes on these matters at different points in his life, but his treatise on Genesis represents his most mature view: That we should read the Bible literally wherever possible, and figuratively where it clearly is not literal.
If the Bible says that the sun rises, that is a figure of speech, which we still use every day, even though we know that the sun doesn't rise but the earth spins.
If the Bible says that the whole world was drowned in a flood, then most Catholics would probably say that it's not sure if that statement is literal or not. Maybe a large flood, maybe the whole of Mesopotamia, maybe the Black Sea let loose, we just don't know. To say that it is a only myth, however, is just foolish.
To say that the statement that Eve was made from a rib taken from Adam's side is false, or a myth, is even more silly. "With God, all things are possible." If God wanted to take a rib and transform it into a woman, that's His business. It just isn't within the purview of any bishop to say that this verse is simply false. God can perform a miracle any time He chooses.
Bishops can and do err, from time to time. When the Arian heresy spread, nearly all the bishops in Christendom joined the wrong side, and Athanasius was left almost alone. But he prevailed.
Is this really any worse than Protestants who claim the King James Bible is the only true Bible?
If true, this is really is disheartening. I hope all Catholics don't adopt this terrible doctrine. I read the entire article and it just gets worse and worse.
To a certain extent, even the most fundamentalist Christians don't take the Bible completely literally. There are many very fundamentalist churches who don't believe in transubstantiation, a belief one would have to hold if one supported a literal translation of the bible.
The ultimate truth--and the only ultimate truth--is God.