Black Spirituality Religion : "Catholic Church No Longer Swears By The Bible"

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Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the bible
Ruth Gledhill
Religion Correspondent
TimesOnLine
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1811332,00.html

The hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church has published a teaching document instructing the faithful that some parts of the Bible are not actually true.

The Catholic bishops of England, Wales and and Scotland are warning their five million worshipers, as well as any others drawn to the study of scripture, that they should not expect "total accuracy" from the Bible.

"We should not expect to find in Scripture full scientific accuracy or complete historical precision." they say in The Gift of Scripture.

The document is timely, coming as it does amid the rise of the religious Right, in particular in the US.

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Gift of Scripture—It’s an Issue of Authority
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The Gift of Scripture—It’s an Issue of Authority
by Dr. A.J. Monty White and Paul Taylor

October 7, 2005
October 7, 2005
....An article inThe Timesof London by Ruth Gledhill about this study book2is accompanied on the newspaper’s website by a discussion. One posting, by an atheist, is particularly telling. Referring to theGift of Scripture’s repudiation of biblical literalism and creationism, the atheist says: “Having been obliged at last to make these concessions, I wonder how much longer it will take for the virgin birth, the divinity of Christ and the resurrection also to be conceded as ‘symbolic’.”
Atheists even understand that the issue is one of authority. The issue is that the Bible is the inerrant, infallible and authoritative word of God. It is through the Bible that we should interpret our view of the world, rather than interpreting the Bible by our view of the world.
It is in that light that in this study guide, the Catholic bishops state: “We should not expect to find in Scripture full scientific accuracy or complete historical precision.” Why not? The atheist quoted above understands that a belief in Scripture should lead us to believe in such accuracy. It is precisely for this reason that such atheists delight in pointing out supposed scriptural inaccuracies to us. However, it is when we start from the submission of our worldview to God’s Word that such “inaccuracies” disappear.
For example, Ruth Gledhill reports that “the first 11 chapters of Genesis, in which two different and at times conflicting stories of creation are told, are among those that this country’s Catholic bishops insist cannot be ‘historical’.” Yet this quote contains its own internal refutation. Starting from a belief that Genesis chapters one and two are true (as is the rest of the Bible), we find that the supposed “contradictory” creation accounts of these chapters are actually different angles on the same account, and are not in conflict at all. 3,4
Moreover, it is noteworthy that Jesus quotes from both chapters to make just the one argument (Mark 10:6-9), showing that Jesus believed both Genesis chapters one and two to be true and not in conflict with each other. Perhaps the Catholic bishops of England, Wales and Scotland elevate their own authority above that of Jesus.
...complete here: http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2005/10/07/gift-of-scripture
 

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