i was at a special mass where the archbishop of a diocese was attending and a priest who was giving the sermon literally said that the gospels are just stories about Jesus and not to be taken literally to the packed church building. are these the teachings and beliefs of the catholic church??!! God help them!
2006-08-29 13:44:52 · 17 answers · asked by 4hym 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Catholic Church compiled the canonical Bible that you now read. Saint Jerome was a monk in the Roman Catholic Church. Many centuries later the Reformation removed some canonical books from the Bible.
There is a literal sense of Scripture and a spiritual sense. The literal must be founded upon sound interpretation of the ancient languages. The Bible is divided into 4 methods of teaching: literal, allegorical, moral, leading sense.
The Letter speaks of deeds (stories), Allegory to Faith, Moral on how to act, and Leading sense to our destiny.
The Authority of Interpretation is held by the Catholic Church leaders who were commission by Christ to declare what is bound and what is loose.
So does the Bible contain stories about Jesus life, death, and resurrection? Certainly. This does not impugn the divine authenticity of the story. Remember Jesus spoke in parables (stories) with lesson for greater knowledge of God's mercy and love.
I hope this helps.
2006-08-29 14:03:53 · answer #1 · answered by Lives7 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a Catholic priest actually said what you attribute to him, he was wrong.
If we had the opportunity to question the priest about it, he might want to clarify his remarks.
The Catholic church teaches, and has always maintained that the Bible is the inerrant Word of God, as set down by the sacred writers, who were inspired by the Holy Spirit.
2006-08-29 19:03:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would you take the Bible literally. In Exodus, it is said that one should kill their own family and friends if they do not worship God (Ex. 32:26-29). If that is so, it's your duty to kill every aetheist in the world. Would you do that. The Bible did say to. There is a reason these things are not taken literally. Iy was afterall, written by humans. The Catholics may have their problems, but Bible worshipping and literalism is a far greater error.
2006-08-29 14:45:03 · answer #3 · answered by Michael M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of teh things that jesus said were hyperbole, like a person has to hate his father and mother in order to follow Jesus. This cannot be taken literally, otherwise Jesus would be telling someone to violate one of the ten Commandments.
Another example is the "call no man Father" prohibition. Did Jesus mean that a person cannot call his male parent "father"? No, Jesus was saying that you should put no person on equal footing with God.
2006-08-29 14:53:57 · answer #4 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(Full disclosure: I am an atheist, so I think it's all nonsense, but...) Catholics use a canon of both scripture and traditional ceremony that dates back basically unbroken to the times of Jesus. Protestants use a canon adopted in the 1500s when Protestantism was invented by Martin Luther. If you were truly and honestly being a fair & disinterested party, which would you be likely to trust more?
2006-08-29 13:52:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Catholics, like Protestants, Baptist, Pentecostals, and any other group you can know run the full spectrum on their beliefs about the Bible. Hopefully you will not take the statement of one priest as the beliefs of the entire religion. There are many Catholics who know, love and obey the scriptures. (And no, I am not Catholic.)
2006-08-29 13:51:52 · answer #6 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bible is unquestionably a non secular e book and that they say that in case you ask questions from it with deep faith it is going to communicate back to you and supply you solutions. each and all the main scriptures like the 'Holy Koran' the 'Bhagvad Gita' and 'Torah' incorporate the elegant non secular certainty. It relies upon upon a guy or woman how he/she makes use of the scripture for his or her non secular progression. lots of the non secular scriptures are manuals of the God to stay one's human existence righteously and fruitfully so as that the soul is going to heaven.
2016-10-01 01:46:04 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have asked that myself. I guess they don't believe in talking snakes and living in a whale's stomach for 3 days. The tenets of the bible are sound and if you follow them I doubt God will care if if you believe the flood really happened.
2006-08-29 14:02:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
they do not ignore it. they add to it in some cases to fit their particular belief system, but they do acknowledge it as a book of God, just not the entire story.
-eagle
2006-08-29 13:48:45 · answer #9 · answered by eaglemyrick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was raised a catholic,but when I read the Bible I find a lot of false doctrine in their beliefs...I am no longer one of them...For one thing the Bible says "to call no man Father as your Father is in heaven"And believe its wrong to pray to Mary or statues of "saints"..Only Christ died for me to give me the hope of salvation..
2006-08-29 14:00:34 · answer #10 · answered by Dizzyblonde 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋