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To: imardmd1
Yes, It is truth to me, and since you are unable, or unwilling, to clarify what you meant, I cannot tell whether you worship the Bible (Bibliolatry) as the Word of God, or venerate the Scriptures as does the one holy catholic apostolic church.

Catholics do not worship the Bible. Catholics venerate the Bible with love, honor, and gratitude.

105 God is the author of Sacred Scripture. "The divinely revealed realities, which are contained and presented in the text of Sacred Scripture, have been written down under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit."69

"For Holy Mother Church, relying on the faith of the apostolic age, accepts as sacred and canonical the books of the Old and the New Testaments, whole and entire, with all their parts, on the grounds that, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author, and have been handed on as such to the Church herself."70

106 God inspired the human authors of the sacred books. "To compose the sacred books, God chose certain men who, all the while he employed them in this task, made full use of their own faculties and powers so that, though he acted in them and by them, it was as true authors that they consigned to writing whatever he wanted written, and no more."71

107 The inspired books teach the truth. "Since therefore all that the inspired authors or sacred writers affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the Sacred Scriptures."72

108 Still, the Christian faith is not a "religion of the book." Christianity is the religion of the "Word" of God, a word which is "not a written and mute word, but the Word is incarnate and living".73 If the Scriptures are not to remain a dead letter, Christ, the eternal Word of the living God, must, through the Holy Spirit, "open [our] minds to understand the Scriptures."74

493 posted on 09/03/2015 5:23:06 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: af_vet_1981; metmom; Springfield Reformer; MHGinTN; Mark17
I cannot tell whether you worship the Bible (Bibliolatry) as the Word of God, . . .

I'm working on a little longer answer, but to call you to account regarding the pejorative "Bibliolatry," it's more than sensible for me to worship the Bible than it is for you to worship a glass of grape juice, isn't it?

494 posted on 09/04/2015 11:42:12 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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