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Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible
'The hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church has published a teaching document instructing the faithful that some parts of the Bible are not actually true. The Catholic bishops of England, Wales and Scotland are warning their five million worshippers, as well as any others drawn to the study of scripture, that they should not expect “total accuracy” from the Bible.
“They go on to condemn fundamentalism for its “intransigent intolerance” and to warn of “significant dangers” involved in a fundamentalist approach.
“Such an approach is dangerous, for example, when people of one nation or group see in the Bible a mandate for their own superiority, and even consider themselves permitted by the Bible to use violence against others.”
Similarly, they refute the apocalyptic prophecies of Revelation, the last book of the Christian Bible, in which the writer describes the work of the risen Jesus, the death of the Beast and the wedding feast of Christ the Lamb. '
www.timesonline.co.uk/article...,00.html
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'The hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church has published a teaching document instructing the faithful that some parts of the Bible are not actually true. The Catholic bishops of England, Wales and Scotland are warning their five million worshippers, as well as any others drawn to the study of scripture, that they should not expect “total accuracy” from the Bible.
“They go on to condemn fundamentalism for its “intransigent intolerance” and to warn of “significant dangers” involved in a fundamentalist approach.
“Such an approach is dangerous, for example, when people of one nation or group see in the Bible a mandate for their own superiority, and even consider themselves permitted by the Bible to use violence against others.”
Similarly, they refute the apocalyptic prophecies of Revelation, the last book of the Christian Bible, in which the writer describes the work of the risen Jesus, the death of the Beast and the wedding feast of Christ the Lamb. '
www.timesonline.co.uk/article...,00.html
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Re: Catholic Church no longer swears by the Bible
Wed, October 5, 2005 - 6:45 AMI don't think this is a new position at all for the Catholic Church. I spent 12 years in Catholic schools and it was never suggested by anyone that the Bible should be taken as literal truth. What they would like you to accept as truth is their interpretation of the Bible and biblical events which they stressed had been studied by many generations of scholars, guided ultimately by the popes who were "infallible" because they were descended in a direct line from Peter, "the rock" upon which Jesus built his church.
Much of what they teach is really outside of the Bible, for instance, the trinity of "The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, was never specifically mentioned in the Bible, as far as I know. Much of the moral code they profess is really not rooted in the Bible, etc...
Also, I always wondered where did they get the answer to the question in the Baltimore Catechism, "Why are we here?" Answer: We are here to know, love, and serve God. I do not think you can find this in the Bible. Of course, Why are we here? is a pretty big question. I do not think anybody has answered it, but I took their answer to heart and set out to "know" God. I found out that if he was ever here, he left a long time ago, so there was no one to love or serve. Actually I think I am still involved in this process, trying to know God, trying to understand the universe, so maybe this was not such a bad answer after all.
