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To: Dr. Eckleburg
And what if what you read in the Bible conflicts with the interpretation given by the magisterium?

Doesn't happen. Actually, the role of the magisterium has been more to correct utterly wrong interpretations (which happens rather infrequently) than to provide a line-by-line guide, which it doesn't do.

Catholics are free to meditate on the Scriptures, to gain insights into the inexhaustible richness of Scripture from many sources -- e.g., the Pope, in his Jesus of Nazareth, draws on Rabbi Neusner's book (title's something like A Jew Talks to Jesus), with great appreciation of the further depth of understanding it provides of Jewish roots of the New Testament. Doesn't mean Rabbi Neusner's book becomes part of the Magisterium. (I do plan to read it myself.)

Catholics have a responsibility, not stressed enough in recent years IMO, to keep learning, not to be content with the bare minimum.

997 posted on 06/02/2008 11:16:36 AM PDT by maryz
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To: maryz
Catholics have a responsibility, not stressed enough in recent years IMO, to keep learning, not to be content with the bare minimum.

But as you say, your interpretation does not conflict with the magisterium's interpretation, so you would be urging the Catholic to "keep learning" from the magisterium and not the Scriptures.

Because the Scriptures and the magisterium conflict hundreds of times.

1,003 posted on 06/02/2008 11:44:39 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: maryz
Actually, the role of the magisterium has been more to correct utterly wrong interpretations (which happens rather infrequently) than to provide a line-by-line guide, which it doesn't do.

+1

Many on the other side either will not or can not get this. Their persistent image is that somewhere in the bowels of the Vatican is a group, not unlike the Watchtower for the Witnesses, which tells us what to believe, ow to read each line of Scripture and what to think on every single issue, whether real or anticipated.

This is of course entirely wrong, but to see that requires giving up the notion that we neither inhale nor exhale without looking over our shoulders for the Vatican's okay. But that's a central tenet of their opposition to us, and another example of how what they oppose is not the Church as it is, but something which is largely a figment of their own imagination.

1,005 posted on 06/02/2008 11:54:39 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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