Having said that ... where is the databank of official verses they HAVE interpreted?
And personally, if you are going to claim authority over the interpretation of scripture ... why WOULDN'T that include all of it.
Having said that ... where is the databank of official verses they HAVE interpreted?
And personally, if you are going to claim authority over the interpretation of scripture ... why WOULDN'T that include all of it.
The Catholic Church has chosen to definitely interpret about a dozen verses. Now that does not mean that those verse can't have other interpretations. It means that we can't interpret them in direct opposition to the Church's.
The reason that the Church has not definitely interpreted every single verse is that the Bible is rich with depth and meaning. And different people can take different things from the Bible on a given day. I know myself that there have been days when I will read a verse and see something a week later I might take something else from it. This site has a list of the verses that have been definitively interpreted: http://cathapol.blogspot.com/2010/04/bible-verses-defined-by-catholic-church.html
So there is in effect an authoritative interpretation of each verse in the Bible.
Now, that doesn't include the single verse taken out of context as if it's a stand alone doctrine in and of itself approach that I've seen and heard from non-Catholic authors and speakers who ignore context whenever it suits their agenda, but it is complete.
So thedre is indeed an authoritative interpretation of each verse, in context, as the verse relates to the context it's in as well as to other Scripture when there is an important connection to other Scripture as well as to the immediate context.