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SCRIPTURE AND VATICAN II: A VERY INCOMPLETE JOURNEY By BRENDAN BYRNE SJ
Brendan Byrne, S.J., is professor of New Testament at Jesuit Theological College, within the United Faculty of Theology, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia.
Pope John Paul II named Brendan Byrne, SJ. Member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission in 1990.
Quote: I think, too, it has to be said that the task of promoting the kind of biblical literacy asked for at Vatican II has received little help
and no small degree of hindrance from prevailing tendencies in the Roman Curia.
The 1993 document of the Biblical Commission stands on a lonely eminence in this regard—and even it could have been negative in tone had not several of the members of the Commission fought long and hard to exclude gratuitous judgments in many areas.
The handling of scripture in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994) is simply disgraceful and in many respects regresses not merely behind Vatican II but Divino Affante Spiritu itself.11
When I asked at a session of the Biblical Commission why that Commission was not being employed or at least consulted during the preparation of the Catechism,
my question was received in sullen silence;
I had ventured upon some inter-Curial turf war. End quote.
ACCORDING TO THE ABOVE STATEMENTS
- The Roman Curia working on NOT a small degree to keep the Catholics in the state of Bible illiteracy.
- The handling of scripture in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994) is simply disgraceful, which of course means: the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994) is simply disgraceful.
To find out the above two statements are correct we need to test the CCC with genuine Catholic teachings and with the Scripture as follows.
THE CANONS OF THE COUNCIL OF ORANGE 529 AD
CANON 5. “… For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God” (Eph. 2:8) …”
CANON 18. “That grace is not preceded by merit. Recompense is due to good works if they are performed; but grace, to which we have no claim, precedes them, to enable them to be done.”
MERIT
Divine reward for the practice of virtue.
“The reward given for good works is not won by reason of actions which precede grace, but GRACE, which is unmerited, PRECEDES actions in order that ENABLE them to be done.”
(II Council of Orange, Denzinger 388).
Rom.11:5-6 In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. 6 And if it is by grace then it is no longer by works. Otherwise,
grace would no longer be grace.
Rom.5:18; “Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment come to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act
the free gift come to all men, resulting in justification of life.”
Rom.3:24; “Being
justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
1992 Justification has been
merited for us by the Passion of Christ who offered himself on the cross as a living victim, holy and pleasing to God, and whose blood has become the instrument of atonement for the sins of all men.
Justification is conferred in Baptism, the sacrament of faith. …
2020 Justification has been
merited for us by the Passion of Christ.
It is granted us through Baptism. It conforms us to the righteousness of God, who justifies us. …
**JOINT DECLARATION ON THE DOCTRINE OF JUSTIFICATION
by the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church**
3/17 Justification is SOLELY due to the forgiving and renewing mercy that God imparts
as a gift and we RECEIVE IN FAITH, and NEVER CAN MERIT IT ANY WAY.
4/25 We confess together that sinners are justified by faith in the saving action of God in
Christ. WHATEVER in the JUSTIFIED PRECEDES or FOLLOWS the free gift of faith is
NEITHER THE BASIS of justification NOR MERITS it.
4/27.The Catholic understanding also sees faith as fundamental in justification. For
without faith, no justification can take place. Thus justifying grace never becomes a
human possession. While Catholic teaching emphasizes the renewal of life by justifying
grace, this RENEVAL in FAITH, HOPE, LOVE is always dependent on God’s
unfathomable grace and contributes NOTHING to JUSTIFICATION. End quote.
KEY POINTS OF THE ABOVE THEACHINGS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
- Salvation is not our own doing, it is the gift of God.
- Grace is not preceded by merit.
- Grace, to which we have no claim, precedes work, to enable work to be done.
- GRACE, which is unmerited, PRECEDES actions in order that ENABLE actions to be done.
- If it is by grace then it is no longer by works. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.
- Through one Man’s righteous act the free gift come to all men, resulting in justification of life.
- Justification has been merited for us by the Passion of Christ. **
It is granted us through Baptism.** It conforms us to the righteousness of God, who justifies us. .
- Justification is SOLELY due to the forgiving and renewing mercy that God imparts
as a gift and we RECEIVE IN FAITH, and NEVER CAN MERIT IT ANY WAY.
- WHATEVER in the JUSTIFIED PRECEDES or FOLLOWS the free gift of faith is
NEITHER THE BASIS of justification NOR MERITS it.
- FAITH, HOPE, LOVE is always dependent on God’s
unfathomable grace and contributes NOTHING to JUSTIFICATION.
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You might like to reconsider your position of “PERIODICAL LIFE AND DEATH” and might start to believe “ETERNAL LIFE.”