Christians, especially Catholics, how do you respond to this article?

Question

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1811332,00.html

Answer 1

This is old news.

Catholics believe the Bible tells religious truth but not necessarily historical fact.

For example, the Catholic Church does not take the story of creation in the Bible literally.

The religious truth is that God created everything and declared all was good.

The Church supports science in the discovery of God's creation.

At this time, the theory of evolution is the most logical scientific explanation. However tomorrow someone may come up with a better idea.

As long as we believe that God started the whole thing, both the Bible and modern science can live in harmony.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

This is what we Muslims keep saying over and over. Islam does not condemn The Bible or Christianity; only what 'they' transformed them into. Islam admits that The Bible is the word of God unfortunately tainted by those who wrote, altered through time, and misappropriated by the actions of the Roman Catholics claiming falsely that God, the one supreme creator of the universe, is in a trinity where Jesus Christ is his son!! God, according to the Islamic definition that is sheer common sense, is nothing like anything known to man. God created time and space, beginnings and ends, and He has no beginning or end or any human attributes. According to our beliefs, u can’t even comprehend the nature of God’s will or intellect. Worshipping God is a matter of faith in something way beyond your human understanding yet something u can feel in the stream of every moment and see its effect inside u and in every place. Jesus Christ was an honorable and passionate messenger and there’s a really good probability that I love and respect him more than u do but he was a 100% human being and human beings r not to be worshipped.
What happened to the Bilble is just so sad it might make u lose your faith in humanity just thinking of it. All the holy books we know r THE EXACT SAME THING only that man is good for only one thing that is BETRAYAL. Watch man’s reaction to these holy books and the messengers sent to spread them. Jews killed a really considerable number of prophets and wasted the Torah, Christians shredded the bible and sometimes even re-invented their own versions, like The Book of Mormon amongst others; they also misused religion and fought against science in the Middle Ages. When it came to Islam, the message of the end of times, God promised The Humanity that it is He that will preserve The Holy Qura’an from the hands of man. This is why it was inspired in the most beautiful and robust language ever spoken and kept in the minds and books of billions of people throughout its history around the world in the same unified form like a universal constant. One holy book that is a miracle in itself filled with so many scientific facts that can easily blow your mind away. The amazing, poetic, yet surprisingly accurate description of the phases of in-utero formation of life from sperm to fetus is only one example of what our 14-centuries-old book contains.
But then again look at us Muslims decades behind in terms of civilization with corruption dominating our systems beyond any hope. Think of how the Goddamn - literally - terrorists ruined the image of the true religion and see it as THE NEW BETRAYAL.
I guess we r gonna keep failing God forever and ever. Those who work their minds through the lies and the contradictions might lose their faith and those who know the truth r just too weak to preserve and deliver the message

Answer 3

It Said In Revelations That the last days ( NOW ) will be full of Sin, False Prophets, Cults, and The Christianity will be DENOUNCED, Made fun of, and many would drop out of the church.........This Just confirms the Bible is Real. This article is a Fufilled Prophecy....The False Prophet In the Bible is spuculated today as being the Pope.

Answer 4

I agree that the Catholic Church, to which I belong, is taking a huge step forward to move into the 21st century. However, I don't believe that anyone in any century has the power to change the content of the Bible. It is, after all, God's word. The answer lies in the interpretation of that word and maybe it does change over time. Hope this helps.

Answer 5

Am a Christian and I do believe in the Bible no matter who's the translator of it. People who call them selves Christians do not practice or read what's in the bible so I don't know how they judge this sacred book. Galileo was right all along and God was on his side when he claim that earth was round or circle cuz hundreds of years before that was written on the bible that the earth was actually circle form. (Isah 40:22) about 800 years b.c. You may contact me if more info is needed.

Answer 6

Well, I'm not Christian as you know, but I think that these moves are great for the Catholic Church. Any organisation that refuses to accept reality is bound to disappear into irrelevance. If all available empirical evidence is in conflict with something written in a book, one of them has to give. I respect the RC Church for choosing the right one to negate.

Answer 7

Psalm eighty 3:18 Jehovah you on my own are maximum intense over all the earth. Almighty God abounds with expertise. ... activity 12: 13; Romans 11: 33; a million Cor. 2: 7. God is merely. ... Deuteronomy 32: 4; Psalm 37: 28. Almighy, all-efficient, is Jehovah God. ... activity 37: 23; Revelation 7: 12; 4: 11.

Answer 8

so the churches in the uk have seen the bible is not the truth so when is the usa gowing to follow or are you still gowing to stay in the dark ages

Answer 9

please be patient this is long.
first off the article said that the 11th chapter of Genisis contradicts the creation of the world in chapter 1 of Genisis. I have no idea what Bible they read. chapter 11 just talks about the tower of babel and the geneology of a few people. second, the catholic church has become very liberal and are only looking to please every single person on the planet. "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.” (NKJ: II Timothy 4:3-4)
the catholic church is just looking for more followers to get more $$$$$$.the catholic church said that the Bible is unreliable and is not totally accurate, then is our history of anyone single person from history accurate? what we know about Julius Caesar was wrtten around 1000 years after his death with only 10 copies of ancient manuscripts to document this. historians wrote about Plato 1200 years after his death with only 7 copes of ancient manuscripts to document his life.Thucydides, 1300 years after his death with only 8 copies. Herodotus, 1300 years after his death with only 8 copies.Aristotle, 1400 years after his death with only 49 copies, Homer, 500 years after his death with 643 copies. And as you guessed #1, the New Testament in the Bible 25 years after the death of Jesus with around 24000 ancient manuscript copies. archeologists and historians all try to say that
the manuscripts in the Bible were much much older, but that does not account for one of Jesus' most important prophecies, that the temple in Jerusalem would be destroyed. the temple was destroyed in 60 AD, Jesus died in 32 AD, so if the
manuscripts were written hundreds of years later, why didn't they say that Jesus' prophecy came true, that the most important
part of Jewish life and culture, that a humongous building that controlled every part of life in Israel, was destroyed???
Did you ever look any prophecies of the old testament? Ezekiel 26- Therefore, thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I am against
you, O Tyre, and I will bring up many nations against you ...and I will scrape her debris from her and make her bare rock."(vs 3-4)
"behold, I will bring upon Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzer kinf of babylon... he will slay your daughters on the mainland witht the sword; and he wil make siege walls against you, cast up a mound against you..." (vs. 7-8)
"and I will make you a bare rock ; you will be a place for the spreading of nets, you will be built no more, for I the Lord have spoken... vs 14 this was written between 592 bc, Nebuchadnezzar attacked the city in 585 and besieged it untill 573 bc the mainland city was destroyed in 573 bc, they moved the city further off to an island, which was later destroyed by Alexander, it was wiped entiredly off the map, read up on it in history plus the city of Sidon in Ezekiel 28, Gaza Ashkelon in Amos 1:8, Jeremiah 47, Zephaniah 2. if you actually research it you will find that the cities that were prophesied against by the
prophets inthe Bible have been destroyed. as for evolution: it is the same as saying that when a tornado rips through a junkyard that things would become more organized, that after the tornado is finished that you woud have a brand new Boeing 747 ready to
fly. it says that things "spontaneously generate" from nothing. the 2nd law of thermodynamics says that everything in the universe goes from a complex state to a state of more chaos and less complexity, over time. the longer the amount of time the greater the chaos, this is proven in a junkyard, cars go from new to really
old and rusty and beat up. evolution says that things go from less
complex and very chaotic to very complex and less chaotic. but
the 2nd law of thermodynamics disproves that, evolution would have to , in turn, say that when we dropped the atom bomb it should have caused greater complexity and less chaos, because after all, evolution states the world came from a large explosion. also, scientists estimated that they would find hundreds of thousands of fossils in half-way states of evolution, they still haven't found even one single fossil yet that was going through evolution. evolutionists said that when we landed on the moon we should have sunk into the dust a couple of FEET because over the billions of years there should have been several feet of dust, but there were only , at the most, a few INCHES. Biology PROVES that life only comes from life, while STATES that life is generated from nothing. one last thing, a
french archeologist Clermont-Ganneau uncovered Christian
tombs from the time of Jesus with the name Jesus written on
them and a picture of a cross etched into them. this was around 1873, it was never published in any major newspaper, and he
himself published a book about it which got no publicity. check it
out. really sorry this is so long

Answer 10

What?? The bible isn't true word for word?? OMG! What a shock!