They claim we don't use the Bible but then they ask about it all of the time. This makes no sense. They must know we use the Bible or they could not ask us about it.
2007-03-15 07:04:31 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
These are the same people who think the King James Bible magically materalized instead of coming directly from the Textus Receptus, the same bloody source as the Vulgate, and preserved by the very Catholics they loathe.
2007-03-15 07:08:46 · answer #1 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I assume that, when it happens, it is to trip the non-Bible-reading Catholic up. Fundamentalist Bible interpretation prohibits many Catholic attitudes and practices, so they would naturally wish to point out just where in the Bible each practice is denied. They therefore ask the loaded question, hoping to point out the error through a "proof-text". Since the Catholic understanding of scripture is more holistic (Isolating verses to make points is an alien concept for them.), communication usually breaks down, but the hope remains that the Catholic will crack, admit his depravity and accept Christ as his personal savior, etc.
2007-03-15 15:43:45 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As you can see from many of your answers, most fundamentalists think we Catholics don't know our faith.
I read the Bible, and study (and am actually studying to be an Apologist) it often. Oddly enough, if the fundamentalist would actually read it themselves, they would understand that the Catholic church does teach the Word of God.
And to the person who said we place tradition above the Bible, you are wrong. Tradition was in place first, but the Bible is the Word.
2007-03-15 14:26:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mainly cause we view it differently. I am a fundamentalist and my view of the authority of scripture and yours is different. Yours places the Bible below tradition, mine is the exact opposite. Yes, I have studied Catholic theology as I did not want to be misinformed on our differences and what I found is that with the exception of Mary, transubstantiation, saints and the meaning of baptism. we are pretty much on the same page.
2007-03-15 14:08:13 · answer #4 · answered by HAND 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
you are claiming to know what "they" think. I believe that most Christians who question Catholics are asking them to read the Bible more thoroughly so they might see the falsehoods preached by their priests.
Roman Catholocism has many, many contradictions to what Jesus and the apostles taught.
2007-03-15 14:10:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because Catholics aren't supposed to read the Bible, they are supposed to read the Programm!
2007-03-15 14:29:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
What? Because most catholics I know, have never even opened the good book. It seems all their faith is in the Priest to deliver the good word.
2007-03-15 14:08:43 · answer #7 · answered by sassinya 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
they are like the FBI and the CIA. One doesn't know what the other is thinking half the time.
2007-03-15 14:07:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some of them are truly expecting us to respond with "The what?"
2007-03-15 14:07:50 · answer #9 · answered by Adoptive Father 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because we know catholics are ignorant of scripture or they would not follow catholic doctrine.
2007-03-15 14:07:24 · answer #10 · answered by Tribble Macher 6 · 3⤊ 4⤋