Yes. Catholics believe that Divine Revelation is preserved not only in Scripture, but also in Sacred Tradition as well as the Church’s Magisterium. Where did you ever get such an idea not to add or subtract what’s in the Scriptures?
Yeah I’am for 24 years now, but my salvation would depend on what should I believe in,right…After reading the bible couple of times, these questions are running in my head ever since…So I just want answers directly from someone who has the correct understanding…Why am i doing things and beleiving in things that is not written on the Bible…Is that not polite to ask? Is beleiving only on what is written in the Scriptures would not save my soul? I am just being careful on what to follow…Pls… I need answers…
Please, please, please read this article in its entirety:
O.K. I see where you are coming from now and I respect that. The CA library has thorough and well-researched biblically based answers on just about any question you may have. Like I said, www.scripturecatholic.com is a great resource too. But you can also start threads about purgatory, saints and limbo if you feel you have not gotten the answers you were seeking from those sources.
I mean if you add such prayers or somethings in your tradition, its not like adding or deleting what is written on the Bible right? I think Jhon told that on his book of revelation… Is asking these questions wuold mean that I’am not a chatolic now or I am sinning right now? = (Yes. Catholics believe that Divine Revelation is preserved not only in Scripture, but also in Sacred Tradition as well as the Church’s Magisterium. Where did you ever get such an idea not to add or subtract what’s in the Scriptures?
I’m still printing it I’ll read it later ok…So, its like this, if I’am an author of a book, example I am also a doctor and writing this book about some cure on this illness like for example a cancer…Do you think I would not write everything I know on the best of my knowledge, that might save someones life, should I write it incomplete or I’ll write everything I know about this cure? Now do you think that these words of God written on the Scriptures that He Himself is the Author is not enough to save someones soul? Did He wrote it incomplete?
I’m confused. Your profile says you are Catholic. That means you know that the Bible alone is not enough but you seem to be questioning that.
If you know nothing about medicine, then the doctor’s book won’t mean much to you. If you take your cancer curing book out of the context of the medical community, it won’t do you much good since that’s the only context in which it can bear fruit. The same goes for the Bible. It’s context has always been within the Church. After all, it was the Church that wrote the Bible and compiled it. Sacred Tradition is the age-old constant, unchanging interpretation that the Church has had of the Scriptures. Kuroro, have you ever heard of a group of individuals called the Church Fathers?
In Revelation when it says not to add or subtract from “this book,” John mean just that…the book of Revelation, not the Bible. The Bible isn’t actually a book. It’s a library. It wasn’t compiled between two covers until about AD 400 when the Catholic Church decided which books to include/exclude from being considered Scripture. Furthermore, if you’re going to interpret that verse from Revelation as meaning the Bible, then Protestants are guilty of subtracting entire books from the Old Testament. Martin Luther did this. Prior to his time, Christians has always accepted the 7 deuterocanonical books as Scripture. Since you’re Catholic, you may not know what I’m talking about, but Protestants have less books in their Bible than Catholics. But now you know, so you can defend your Catholic faith!
how can you be a “practicing” Catholic if you are an evolution man?
You’re absolutely right, Marilena. Spyder, you may want to read this:Spyder1jcd:
That is a contradictory statement and makes zero sense to me. Adam and Eve are not a myth, neither is Noah and the ark. Neither is the tower of babel.
Here is a CA article Adam, Eve and Evolution:
That’s a dangerous statement…do you really think every infallible statement that the Church has made has been handed to it directly by God? The Church doesn’t absolutely require some special revelation in order to make an infallible statement or faith or morals.
Of course I don’t know the answer. But I can give you a couple of ideas: Perhaps God reveals it to the Church through a vision given to some saint living on Earth. Perhaps He somehow reveals it through one of the apparitions of His Blessed Mother. Perhaps He directly reveals it Himself…He could do it absolutely any way that He chose to.
For the sake of simplicity, the answer is no. On a technical note, however, you could be correct if you re-define the terms “Hell” (uppercase) and “hell” (lowercase) separately…but I think that’s just playing word games. Hell (the one and only real Hell) is the state of eternal separation from God. This life is not Hell; neither is Purgatory or Limbo (Abraham’s Bosom).
I would also consider myself an “intelligent evolution man”…but that doesn’t change the fact that Adam and Eve were real people, or that Noah’s Flood is the account of a real historical event. Even the Tower of Babel is (more or less literally) the record of a real historical event.
First, I don’t recall anywhere in the Catechism stating that the story of Adam and Eve is Catholic dogma.You’re absolutely right, Marilena. Spyder, you may want to read this:
biblechristiansociety.com/2min_apologetics.asp?id=7
As well as Pius XII’s encyclical Humani Generis because your current stance is not* in line with the Church’s official teaching. Just think about it:
You see, you’ve completely undermined the Christian faith with such nonsense. Furthermore, I don’t see why you’d ever want to believe such a thing considering that it’s been scientifically proven using mitochondrial DNA that all of mankind can be traced back to a single woman who has been aptly named “Eve.”
- If Adam and Eve didn’t really exist, then there was no Original Sin.
- If there was no Original Sin, then what need do we have for redemption?
- If we need not redemption, then Jesus came for nothing. (And, no, I don’t want to hear that “He was just a great spiritual teacher” garbage.)
*In case you need a reminder, the Catechism says in paragraph 2089 that:
“Heresy is the obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth which must be believed with divine and catholic faith, or it is likewise an obstinate doubt concerning the same.”
I think that this qualifies as “some truth which must be believed with divine and catholic faith.”
I agree. If anyone wants to discuss this with me any further, just start a thread or send me a personal message.But seriously, can we move this discussion to another thread? It’s way off topic…
You explicitly said that you don’t believe in Adam & Eve and that it is just a myth. While the Creation narrative mustn’t be taken literally, we certainly must believe that there was a first set of parents through whom sin entered the human race. Apparently you didn’t read the link to Humani Generis:
Then this has been somewhat of a misunderstanding. I meant that I did not take the account literally. Of course I believe that there was a first man and that only from him came other true men. The other “branches” of the evolutionary tree became modern primates, or perhaps even Bigfoot, if anyone wants to go that far.
No, it’s pretty clear that Catholics must believe that the first man and woman were real people who really sinned.
I think you’re right about this being a misunderstanding if you believe that Adam & Eve really existed and were our first parents, but I didn’t get that impression from what you said in post #98. Sorry if I misinterpreted what you were trying to say.Then this has been somewhat of a misunderstanding. I meant that I did not take the account literally. Of course I believe that there was a first man and that only from him came other true men. The other “branches” of the evolutionary tree became modern primates, or perhaps even Bigfoot, if anyone wants to go that far.