Perhaps you could actually read the question I posed:
To What Degree does the Bible Matter to Catholicism?
Furthermore, I asked if you guys would address it, and not even on this thread necessarily.
What Sandyeggo left out is that out of the first 64 posts, 25 are addressed to me, and I don't recall one of them addressing the relevancy of the BIBLE to CATHOLICS.
As Catholics, we recognize God's revelation of Himself in three ways:
- Scripture (The Bible)
- Tradition (Primarily the Liturgy--Mass--and the Sacraments)
- The Magisterium (The Church's teachings)
Why do we recognize these three? Because Christianity is a religion of the Word, not of a book. The Word is a person--Jesus Christ. Each of the revelations above is mutually illuminating. Nothing in the three contradict each other, they reveal more about the others. Scripture is the God-breathed written revelation. Tradition is the living worship of God. The Magisterium is the means given by Christ to understand it all.
Ephesians 3:8 To me, the least of all the saints, is given this grace, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ: 9 And to enlighten all men, that they may see what is the dispensation of the mystery which hath been hidden from eternity in God who created all things: 10 That the manifold wisdom of God may be made known to the principalities and powers in heavenly places through the church, 11 According to the eternal purpose which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord: 12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.