If so, how do you deal with all of the contradictions therein?
2006-10-02 03:39:43 · 15 answers · asked by mutterhals 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, how about teaching peace and love, via jesus, while also teaching "an eye for an eye"....
2006-10-02 03:43:09 · update #1
It depends on what they are trying to say. If the litleral traslation of a verse fits then they use it but they then use the same verse and "translate" it to mean something completely different. It depends on what they are using it for and who they are using it against
2006-10-02 03:43:34 · answer #1 · answered by wilchy 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The Old Testament was not written for our age.
"As regards the Word particularly, it has existed in every age, though not the Word we possess at the present day. Another Word existed in the Most Ancient Church before the Flood, and yet another Word in the Ancient Church after the Flood. Then came the Word written through Moses and the Prophets in the Jewish Church, and finally the Word written through the Evangelists in the new Church. The reason why the Word has existed in every age is that by means of the Word there is a communication between heaven and earth, and also that the Word deals with goodness and truth, by which a person is enabled to live in eternal happiness. In the internal sense therefore the Lord alone is the subject, for all goodness and truth are derived from Him" (Arcana Coelestia n. 2895).
2006-10-02 03:50:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you read the word of God (Bible), you have to do it with prayer that God will give you understanding. There are no contradictions in the Bible. The old testament was the law before Jesus died to atone for our sins. His sacrifice wiped away the old law and now we live under grace. Under the old testament law, it was an eye for an eye, but all that changed with Jesus. We live under grace and love and mercy. We only have to accept Jesus and His sacrifice for us. We do still have to obey the law of the land also. Some of the Bible is symbolic, especially in Revelations, but again with prayer for understanding, you can understand if you want to.
2006-10-02 03:54:25 · answer #3 · answered by country nana 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. But fi you ahd paid attention. God changed the (some of them) commandments and made better versions of htem and it used to say in one part int eh old testament that yu should have an eye for and eye. But then God changed it all int he New testament in Matthew. (read it) and He says that that rule is no longer true and to not follow it. And many others. But the one about peac love and eveything that apllies still goes inte h Bible.If u knew, or read the right part, u wouold see that God canged it to not doing that.
2006-10-02 03:51:02 · answer #4 · answered by Mia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What contradictions are you talking about? The bible goes together and in the new testament things happened that were foreseen in the old testament. Will you say that science text books are contradictory? Just because they found something new in the science, like "The world is NOT flat" that doesn't mean that everything else in an old text book is null and void. In the bible, in the new testament it said that the old covenant had passed away. Therefore, read it and read the whole thing, not out of context.
2006-10-02 03:43:36 · answer #5 · answered by Light 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
See the Catechism, paragraphs 115 -119
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_PQ.HTM#BF
The bible is to be interpreted in the literal sense (not to be confused with literalist sense). Literal means in context, regarding what message the author is trying to convey. Literalist sense is "as is written." This is not the proper means of interpretation.
Also listen to this for a more robust discussion:
http://www.biblechristiansociety.com/download/mp3/catholics_and_the_bible.mp3
God Bless,
MoP
2006-10-02 03:53:52 · answer #6 · answered by ManOfPhysics 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I don't
It is a good guide. Call it the instruction manual for building oneself.
The contradictions you mention are based on perception and lack of comprehension.
Choosing certain parables and turning them into an understanding of your own is at best a loss on your part.
That is why there have been religious wars. The human element is way too self-interpretive.
2006-10-02 03:46:53 · answer #7 · answered by dyke_in_heat 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Obviously not.. Simple example, we don't literally eat the Body or drink the Blood of Christ.. The Bible is mainly symbolic
2006-10-02 03:44:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is mainly for Alex T:
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness" Genesis 1:26
"You shall have no other gods before me." Exodus 20:3
2006-10-02 03:46:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
no--you cannot interpret all of the Bible literally. It is not written for that and it says so.
2006-10-02 03:41:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋