Inspired by God doesn’t mean DICTATED by God. The early books of the Old Testament weren’t even written down until several thousand years after the events occurred, so they couldn’t be truly accurate accounts. The Pope is simply saying that individual passages can be mis-interpreted, or twisted into something contrary to what they truly mean, when taken out of context.
“The early books of
the Old Testament weren’t even written down until several thousand years after
the events occurred, so they couldn’t be truly accurate accounts.”
Why?
By that "logic", you have created a loophole for God's word that is so large, you and the Vatican could drive a bus through it. It also means, by your own definition, that the scriptures are robbed of their power, authority, legitimacy, and truth.
And....who gets to pick up the pieces and assume that power, authority, legitimacy, and truth? Why, the Catholic Church!
Wow - what a great racket. Even the Detroit Public Unions should copy that one.
WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! The first five books of the Bible, the Torah, were written by G-d in their entirety and dictated to Moses letter-for-letter. You obviously get your Biblical . . . ahem . . . "knowledge" from late nineteenth century liberal German Protestant "scholars." I guess that means their blasphemies are now official Catholic teaching.