Both of these posts are nonsense.
I don't post very often, as I guess one could say I belong to the unwashed masses who lurk but don't often post because I am not a learned person.
But to say that Catholics don't read the Bible (which I'm happy to report is not true), or to say "it's not their Tradition", isn't true, either.
The problem obviously is not whether we Catholics--today, in this moment in time, in this present culture--read the Bible and hear it proclaimed to us in our churches, but that we don't always interpret it exactly as other Christians do.
So is that new? That's what all these never-ending, voluminous posts are really all about--it's all about interpretation.
But is isn't correct to say Catholics "don't read the Bible", because it "isn't their tradition to do so."
Whether individual Catholics read the Bible as often and as well they should is another topic altogether. And I presume that can be said generally about many Christian believers.
These open forums always give us something to be offended by. I understand that prior to the printing press Bibles were very expensive, but after the cost came down with mass production what was the historic practice of your sect?
BTW, how do you interpret this ;-0.
I wouldn't put too much effort into replying to this. I read those posts, when I don't skip over them, as nothing more than a 'Rah-rah, high-five." There's little chance of affecting personal sideline celebrations.
The mormons say the same thing. They believe that the scriptures are true, in that they are translated or interpreted "correctly." You run the risk of being like the pharisees, who were like today's lawyers, and instead of teaching the plain truth, in the spirit of the law, instead looked for every loophole they could, in order to go around the law.
You must become as little children, Christ said, and that means it is so simple that even a child will comprehend it. Of course that is the "milk and honey", if you want to eat quail, you must trust in the Lord to provide it and no complaining.