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You asked for more comments on the article, which BTW, is an opinion on intreprtation. Why should I not give mine. I was comming down thru the article making comments. And now you say that's enough rather sharply. This does have to do with the article. This is about faith. Accepting God at his word and acting upon it. Faith that God is in control, that I do not have to place my faith in men, or men's traditions, because they will always disappoint. If we trust God's Word we will always have peace with Him.

Rom. 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. (not tradition)

Rom 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Becky

Why should it be, then, that ONLY what is in the bible is the word of God. The truth is that there are many more writings out there with the Holy Spirit's fingerprints on them, but because they were written after the cutoff date, they were not included. There are writings by saints which, I believe, to be Divinely inspired.

I don't believe that the bible alone is all there is to the Word of God. There's much more.

I said that's enough because the section of the Catechism here, really, does not deal with the the bible itself. That comes later.

You asked for more comments on the article, which BTW, is an opinion on intreprtation.

Sorry, Becky, I neglected to post the prologue to the catechism which is quite lengthy. Perhaps this will qualify the nature of the document.

This catechism aims at presenting an organic synthesis of the essential and fundamental contents of Catholic doctrine, as regards both faith and morals, in the light of the Second Vatican Council and the whole of the Church's Tradition. Its principal sources are the Sacred Scriptures, the Fathers of the Church, the liturgy, and the Church's Magisterium. It is intended to serve "as a point of reference for the catechisms or compendia that are composed in the various countries".15

Part Three: The Life of Faith

16 The third part of the Catechism deals with the final end of man created in the image of God: beatitude, and the ways of reaching it - through right conduct freely chosen, with the help of God's law and grace (Section One), and through conduct that fulfills the twofold commandment of charity, specified in God's Ten Commandments (Section Two).