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To: annalex
The Holy Scripture is inerrant as written by the original authors at the time they wrote them with the intention they wrote them, for the audience they intended. This does not mean our understanding of the scripture today is inerrant, but we have tools to approximate it by referring to the interpretation we can glean from the Fathers of the Church.

The only problem with that is that we understand that the NT Scripture is massaged by the Church and harmonized during the first six centuries.

Reading the scripture according to the Protestant charlatan-a-day is virtually guaranteed to be false since they assume their own interpretative authority in the light of, at the oldest, traditions of 15c, which is after any cultural continuity with the Apostolic times was long lost.

Absolutely correct.

6,933 posted on 01/09/2011 2:15:36 PM PST by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so..)
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To: MarkBsnr
we understand that the NT Scripture is massaged by the Church and harmonized during the first six centuries

So then that finished product is inerrant. The New Testament truly is a collective product of the Church; naturally, its creation was a hstorical process. Its inerrancy is, however, "as written" by that collective process, primarily by Sts Matthew, Mark, etc. but possibly by the clarifying and editorial work done in later centuries, over a body of manuscripts available at the time and now lost.

7,133 posted on 01/24/2011 5:29:27 AM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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