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To: chajin

Catholics need to rediscover the Bible.


5 posted on 06/15/2014 9:37:02 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: Biggirl

Catholics need to rediscover the Bible. Is this your unique observation, or are you repeating misinformation that is bandied about concerning Catholics?

Just wondering why you think we do not know the Bible? I could just as easily day, “Protestants need to study early Church Fathers more.”

Generalizations do not help anyone to understand what is going on.

My observation of the status of Christianity today in the USA is that most folks want to/should strive to make Jesus their best friend. A minister or priest who is successful in teaching the Gospel with the goal of winning souls for Christ will be successful. It does not matter how much memorization anyone can do with Bible passages - or how many novenas one makes, if the final outcome is a superficial faith. Becoming Christ-like is the epitome of being a good Christian.


30 posted on 06/15/2014 1:01:38 PM PDT by Gumdrop (~)
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To: Biggirl; piusv; BlatherNaut; ebb tide; allendale; MWS
Catholics need to rediscover the Bible.

No they don't. Catholics are more into the Bible now than they have ever been in their history . . . and they've never been more irreverent, doubting, and skeptical towards it.

What good does it do to have everyone reading bibles that are annotated with liberal, higher-critical commentaries that insist that the Torah was a late forgery and that Genesis was a rip-off of ancient Babylonian and Canaanite cosmogonical myths? Shoot, apparently (from at least one FReeper) G-d didn't even slay the Egyptian firstborn (that was a "metaphor").

Catholics were better off when they were totally unfamiliar with the Bible but implicitly believed it. In modern Catholicism familiarity has breeded only contempt.

38 posted on 06/15/2014 2:47:00 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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