Besides the Quakers
2006-08-30 12:55:09 · 8 answers · asked by ? 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Catholics do not take parts of the Bible literally.
The Creation stories in Genesis tell the religious truth that God created the world and it was good.
The Catholic Church (hopefully) has learned it lesson and now proclaims that religion and science can coexist and complement each other.
Catholics can believe in the theory of evolution. Or not. The Church does not require belief in evolution.
Evolution is the most scientifically sound explanation of God's creation at this time. Tomorrow someone may come up with a better theory.
With love in Christ.
2006-09-02 15:29:37 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe all denominations don't that's why no specific one is perfect. I was raised Catholic so know first hand some fundamental issues they took liberty with instead of following the bible literally. The one that bothers me the most is calling priests 'Father' when the bible clearly says to call no one Father (ok, I'm paraphrasing) but your heavenly Father! I know I always called my earthly dad, "Daddy" and I don't intend on calling another priest Father again!
2006-08-30 22:33:55 · answer #2 · answered by Cinnababy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All of them don't and all do. Just as an example, Fundamentalists who are the most literal ignore Jesus' words on what communion is in John's Gospel because that is what the Catholic Church teaches. Likewise, many segments are clearly not intended to be literal.
So you need to ask a more precise question.
2006-08-30 20:01:45 · answer #3 · answered by OPM 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Mine.
Religious Science/Science of Mind.
The Science of Mind is built on the theory that there is One Infinite Mind which of necessity includes all that is, whether it be the intelligence in man, the life in the animal, or the invisible Presence which is God. In it we learn to have a spiritual sense of things. This spiritual sense of things is what is meant by the Consciousness of Christ. To be able to discern the spiritual idea back of its physical symbol is to use the mind that Jesus used.
This science is more than mental; it is also spiritual, since we live in a spiritual universe. The Science of Mind declares the Truth about this spiritual universe and it also declares the Truth about false belief, considering everything which is opposed to good as an accumulation of human thought, the collective negative suggestion of the race.
Wrong conditions are resolved into false beliefs, and through the use of right ideas a transformation of thought takes place. We learn to build our ideas upon an affirmative rather than a negative factor. To state the Truth and deny or disregard that which in belief is opposed to it, is to prove that the Principle of the Science of Mind is actual.
Before some of you start in...read more about it.
www.religiousscience.org
2006-08-30 20:09:20 · answer #4 · answered by The Tiki God 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
All-Sufficient Word.
2006-09-03 14:32:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which part of the Bible are you talking about?
"Harod is a fox" is a metaphor. I don't take that literally. I hope nobody takes that literally.
Jesus died for my sins - I take that literally.
2006-08-30 20:18:59 · answer #6 · answered by bwjordan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Adonai, LDS, and Brother Onion's Traveling Revival and Medicine Show.
2006-08-30 20:03:05 · answer #7 · answered by Chronic Observer 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
pretty much all of them excluding the fundies of course. most will abide by the core "rules" and then pick and choose whatever else to follow or ignore.
2006-08-30 20:01:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋