CATHOLIC CHURCH no longer swears by the truth of the Bible!?

Question

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article574768.ece

it is not about LITERAL of Metamorphic.

it is about, "if the catholic church can even subject the Bible to its authority, and say that the bible is not 100% true, what else can it say??"

maybe the catholic will start to say that there are many gods??
or that protestant christians are terrorists?

to catholics who really have doubts about the catholic church, i urge you to go to a bible-believing evangelical christian church! read your own BiBLE!

Answer 1

I do my local parish. Double check your facts.

Answer 2

All Christians, whichever church they belong to, should read the Bible to know more about Jesus Christ who we believe in and follow His teachings.

Remember that all Catholics are Christians but not all Christians are Catholics.

I was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church. Now, I consider myself as a non-denominational Christian, a plain follower of Jesus Christ.

Salvation is not a monopoly of any one Christian denomination. It is not a guarantee that those belonging to a particular church will all go to Heaven.

I am for the unification of all Christians. Instead of being divided because of differences in the interpretation of the same Bible, we should unify and become one. Who can tell us which is right and which is wrong, which is true and which is false? Our fellowmen? Look at the proliferation of different Christian denominations and sects.

Revelation chapters 2 and 3 tell us who we should listen to—the Spirit or the Holy Spirit that Jesus promised that He would send (John chapters 14, 15, and 16). Revelation says: “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.”

Answer 3

Unbelievably stupid answer. I'm not a fan of Roman Catholicism, BUT, at least they have a better understanding of the Bible than people such as yourself. Do you even have a VAGUE understanding of the history of the Bible? And, which christian Bible are you referring to? The Catholic version (also used by Anglicans and Orthodox), or one of your Protestant versions (which threw out a number of books during the reformation which they didn't like, but which had been incorporated into scripture for the previous 1500 years?)
You need to understand the Bible instead of railing at those that truly do have biblical scholars and not Home-grown ones who don't have a clue as to the way in which the ancient Hebrews wrote and thought about scripture. When you understand the history and evolution of the bible, and can read the original texts in their original tongues, write back and criticize those that can.

Answer 4

1) This is newspaper story. Newspapers (especially those in Brittain) are notoriously anti-Catholic.

2) Bishops can be in error.They are not infallible. Even if the newspaper story is totally factual, nothing these men say has the effect of modifying official Catholic doctrine in the slightest.

Here's the straight dope on what the Catholic Church officially proclaims about sacred scripture:

CHAPTER III

SACRED SCRIPTURE, ITS INSPIRATION AND DIVINE INTERPRETATION

11. Those divinely revealed realities which are contained and presented in Sacred Scripture have been committed to writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. For holy mother Church, relying on the belief of the Apostles (see John 20:31; 2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Peter 1:19-20, 3:15-16), holds that the books of both the Old and New Testaments in their entirety, with all their parts, are sacred and canonical because written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author and have been handed on as such to the Church herself.(1) In composing the sacred books, God chose men and while employed by Him (2) they made use of their powers and abilities, so that with Him acting in them and through them, (3) they, as true authors, consigned to writing everything and only those things which He wanted. (4)

Therefore, since everything asserted by the inspired authors or sacred writers must be held to be asserted by the Holy Spirit, it follows that the books of Scripture must be acknowledged as teaching solidly, faithfully and without error that truth which God wanted put into sacred writings (5) for the sake of salvation. Therefore "all Scripture is divinely inspired and has its use for teaching the truth and refuting error, for reformation of manners and discipline in right living, so that the man who belongs to God may be efficient and equipped for good work of every kind" (2 Tim. 3:16-17, Greek text).

Answer 5

Just in case you do not know ...... the Catholic Church were the ones that authored the bible under the command of an emperor of rome during that time, it was meant as a tool to create another religion to fight off the greek gods ..... the bible you were holding is an abridged version.

Answer 6

Why don't you ask the CATHOLIC CHURCH for your info? The Catholic Church agrees with everything the Bible says. It's you Protestants who don't. I'd be happy to explain via email.

Answer 7

How can you make this hypocritical claim, your churches do not take one of the most sacred parts of Christianity as literal truth, and yes I am referring to the Last Supper. The Catholic Church does, we are saying God likes to speak in parables some stories are stories designed by God to get a message across, not necessarily actual historical events. We do accept all the gospels as absolute fact.

Also did you know your Bible is missing 7 books, and was published in 1611 and has known translation errors? Wow I sound condescending but the tone of your post left me no choice. God also dislikes swearing.

Answer 8

speaking of 'bible-believing'...... Jesus used PARABLES to teach us truths. This does not mean that the parables are literally true - so my question is why can't there be parts of the Bible that are not literally true, and yet still have much to teach us that is true? I think that this is what the Catholic document is trying to say.

Answer 9

to see the evolution of religion and what seeks to rule through it.. We begin with the Roman Catholic church... the bible was given to the church in latin a secret language (they expected to be able to keep it secret forever) using prophecy... information found in today's world stolen from the spirit and understanding of humans. It was Satan (for lack of a better word at the moment) to keep true prophecy hidden.. which includes warnings against following religions. If we look at the fight surrounding the exposure of the bible... lots of condemnation and violence to those who worked to expose it... first to translate it in common languages, then in interpretation (causing various christian sects) now in discrediting it... The original purpose of exposing it was to discredit it all along. Or in functioning above it. Christians bash atheists, agnostics, pagans ... Now he inspires humans through christianity as well. the more spirit he stole the louder and stronger he became. ... for when we don't know an answer he steals it from someone else and says he's all knowing... to understand this we must understand that we are born spiritual, emotional, mental and physical... as mother nature was working on balancing nature much of her good advice and answers were filtered through religion. Giving religions the illusion of "goodness"... Satan planned to keep humans blind through perpetually causing slavery of their spirits... that is why in roman catholicism babies are baptized at birth so that they can never know what it is like to be whole... so now much of the human race's spirit is in slavery... mother nature has been trying to keep it balanced but now it is up to humans to forsake their religious beleifs and work to make themselves whole... for as long as people deem it ok to sell their own spirits into slavery they will continue to produce imbalances.

Answer 10

I've already read the article and answered this same question is a previous thread. The author is an idiot whose own article proves her wrong.

My other Christian brothers and sisters - Catholic and non-Catholic - answered your question well enough, so I'll leave you to them.

God bless.

Answer 11

>>it is not about LITERAL<<

Yes, it is. The Catholic Church does not take everything in the Bible literally. Deal with it.