So you admit on SOME scripture you are “allowed” YOPIOS”?
That’s huge!
So you admit on SOME scripture you are “allowed” YOPIOS”?
Alas, again you are wrong, but that you don’t understand the Church and her relationship to Scripture, that you are wrong is not surprising.
The Church is fully aware of the multi layered nature of much of Scripture which means that one can see in the same passage different meanings and practical applications to the Christian life.
It is this deep well of Truth, and faith and doctrine within Scripture that allows for one who reads it often to read a passage one has seen many times and go, “Oh, I hadn’t seen that before.”
What the Church says is simple, the interpretation must not be contradictory to the Truth that is known, and that Catholics should read Scripture through the lens of the faith that has been handed down.
Exactly as lastchance said...Though many protestants insist on their interpretation as the only correct one, if that interpretation is against Truth, then the Catholic is obliged to reject it.
In the debate between Catholicism and Protestantism, the main verses of conflict are usually rooted in the interpretations regarding the Eucharist and the Church. As the Church has spoken on these definitively with the authority given her by Christ, a Catholic should accept the interpretation of the Church, founded by Christ and not that of those who have rejected His Church.
You must not be familiar with Catholic teaching on reading of Scripture. Shall I provide some sources?
I do want to clarify one thing. Always Catholics read the Bible in the context of Church teaching. Part of that teaching involves schools of Biblical hermeneutics. If you are familiar with the Jesus Seminer that would be an example of a use of a type of Biblical hermeneutics which Catholics may not use. Another example would be the whole modernist school of exegesis that arose from Kantian philosophy and which was expressed by the 19th century German school of Higher Criticism in the writings of such theologians as Schleiermacher.
Bottom line if the Church has spoken the faithful must submit to what the Church has stated is official teaching binding on the faithful. If she has not spoken and my view does not contradict the broader teaching of the Church I am free to interpret for myself.