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To: Steelfish

“You don’t need page numbers”

How are we supposed to look up the Catholic church authorized interpretation of these verses, to verify that your use conforms to that interpretation, if you won’t provide a standard citation?

If you won’t provide the specific references, the most logical implication is that you cannot provide them. If you cannot provide them, then the logical implication is that your use of these Scriptures does not conform to an authorized Catholic interpretation, and that you have been engaging in private interpretation, which is what you are accusing others of doing. So, if you want to refute that implication, you DO need to provide page numbers.


122 posted on 09/16/2013 1:07:09 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

That is not a logical deduction that you make. The Catholic Church does not make interpretation based on Scripture alone. Valid scriptural interpretation emanate from other sources as well such as received Sacred Tradition and Revelation. This is a coherent whole of interpretation. This is why we get our theological learning from consulting the Catechism that embodies Scriptural interpretation from these several sources. We don’t interpret Scripture like some commercial contract with annotated legal interpretations on each section and provision.


123 posted on 09/16/2013 10:06:26 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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