Not in my expereince. In AWANA the kids not only learn scripture but in fact it is most definately **not **out of context. It is very structured so that they learn to support Baptist (Protestant) doctrines which from their point are biblical.
Don’t feel bad. I think your lack of knowledge about what is going on is typical but it is something Roman Catholics should come to terms with. Baptist know what they believe and why from the Bible. When they meet joe average Catholic who has no clue how many books are in the bible or even how to sytematically support RCC doctrine they end up converting joe Catholic. You need to make RCC children and adults as strong in their knowledge based. Denial will not help you do it only delude you into a false sense of security and superiority.
Rev North
This is odd to say the least: no Catholic feels the need to defend his faith raised a cradle Catholic: the truth has been revealed to him, a life of sacraments, of love of God, in the Mass and in the everyday, of faith and good works.
Our creed does not mention the Bible because it does not need to. It’s Protestants who fall into the false worship of the Bible: read Reverend Peter Gomes on that.
Systematically? You are playing with words disingenuously. Once you speak of average anybody nobody can deal systematically with anything. But perhaps you are just writing out of another Protestant conceit: the Bible is open to all and every man is his own interpreter. What rubbish.
Very few people know both Hebrew and Greek, so most Catholics trust, and must trust, to the RCC’s learning, which, after all, produced the Bible in the first place.
Nothing an average Protestant could ever say to me could matter: wrong Bible, in translation.
I pray for the conversions of all Protestants to the RCC, and Muslims and atheists, too, whose moral as opposed to Biblical superiority is far less offensive.
