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To: Iscool
Go to Seminary or Complete Graduate Work

I do have a Masters degree. What is your training? There is very little actual bible study for priests...The education is mostly human philosophy... The rest is Catholic church history, theology, ritual, apologetics...Very little actual bible study..

The study of Scripture is one of the subjects that is indeed one of the subjects that is taught in the seminary and is covered each of the four years. Many priest graduate with a Masters degree in Scripture in addition to their M.Div. Put away your Protestant ignorance.

Apparently you don't know much about that either...Tyndale was not an interpreter...Tyndale was a translator...A translator who put the bible in language of the native people, Protestant and Catholic alike...

More of a mistranslator. His translation was deliberately polemical. He also introduced commentary within his translation promoting Protestant beliefs. Even the Protestant King Henry VIII ordered all copies of his translation to be burned. Nor was he the first to offer a vernacular translation. There were many such translations in various languages before either Tyndale or Luther.

47 posted on 12/16/2013 5:24:09 PM PST by Petrosius
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To: Petrosius
The study of Scripture is one of the subjects that is indeed one of the subjects that is taught in the seminary and is covered each of the four years. Many priest graduate with a Masters degree in Scripture in addition to their M.Div. Put away your Protestant ignorance.

From my research online I find that a Catholic Master of Divinity degree pretty much consists of:

M.Div. Fulfilling Academic Requirements for Roman Catholic Ordination – thirty semester-hours of philosophy; twelve semester-hours of theology or religious studies,

And, a relative number of Catholic related studies...As you can see, only 12 hours of bible OR religious studies, and, a whole heap of man-made human philosophy...

I would say that's not an awful lot of bible...

52 posted on 12/16/2013 10:08:45 PM PST by Iscool
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