How Many Think We Can Have More Then One Interpretation Of The Bible

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Just Answer With A Yes Or No .some Are Telling Me We Can Have Many And Call It Free Will. That Is Not The Cathloic View Is It Yours Again Just Answer Yes Or No
 
Why Do We Need Another Thread On The Same Topic, Posted By the Same Person At Roughly The Same Time?:rolleyes:
 
grampa , YOU NEED TO GET BACK ON YOUR MEDS. I WAS JUST TRYING TO GET A ANSWER IS THAT OK WITH YOU. AND SOME PEOPLE SAIDI NTERPRETATIONS ARE A PERSON FREE WILL,IS THAT OK
 
BILL PICK said:
grampa , YOU NEED TO GET BACK ON YOUR MEDS. I WAS JUST TRYING TO GET A ANSWER IS THAT OK WITH YOU. AND SOME PEOPLE SAIDI NTERPRETATIONS ARE A PERSON FREE WILL,IS THAT OK
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Well, BILL PICK, why do you need two threads to do it?

And don’t make fun of people on medication for mental illness.
 
Did You Not Read What I Said, I Got Some Answer That Said Yes That We Had Free Will So I Ask For People Just To Give A Yes Or No ,that Is Ok Is It Not Dont Start Yelling About My Capps My Key Board Is Not Working
 
I am unfamiliar with whatever posts or threads prompted this question, but I would wonder what you mean by the question exactly. Scripture is multi-faceted. The same passage can have more than one interpretation, and both can be valid. This is not always the case, but it often can be. That’s why there’s four senses of Scripture.
 
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Just Answer With A Yes Or No .some Are Telling Me We Can Have Many And Call It Free Will. That Is Not The Cathloic View Is It Yours Again Just Answer Yes Or No
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No there is only one interpretation of scripture. But thousands of applications
 
Joe_5859 said:
I am unfamiliar with whatever posts or threads prompted this question, but I would wonder what you mean by the question exactly. Scripture is multi-faceted. The same passage can have more than one interpretation, and both can be valid. This is not always the case, but it often can be. That’s why there’s four senses of Scripture.
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Joe that’s not true. The passages of scripture have one and only interpretation. They were written for a specific purpose to a specific audience. They can have multiple applications which maybe is what you mean. But not multiple interpretations.
 
As others have noted, there are times that one passage can have mulitple, accepted meanings.
 
BILL PICK said:
Did You Not Read What I Said, I Got Some Answer That Said Yes That We Had Free Will So I Ask For People Just To Give A Yes Or No ,that Is Ok Is It Not Dont Start Yelling About My Capps My Key Board Is Not Working
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OK. But you have no right to make a joke about the mentally ill.
 
I do know that the early Church had two schools of thought with regard to interpretation of Scripture you had those who adhered to the Alexandrian view which was more mystical (for lack of a better term) and you had the Antiochan view which was more literal. Both teachings since have been incorporated into the Catholic church. I think, as did Jerome, scripture can be understood on different levels. but I can’t believe that it can be understood in such a way as to contradict itself or the magesterium.
 
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I do know that the early Church had two schools of thought with regard to interpretation of Scripture you had those who adhered to the Alexandrian view which was more mystical (for lack of a better term) and you had the Antiochan view which was more literal. Both teachings since have been incorporated into the Catholic church. I think, as did Jerome, scripture can be understood on different levels. but I can’t believe that it can be understood in such a way as to contradict itself or the magesterium.
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I agree 100%
 
NDfan said:
Joe that’s not true. The passages of scripture have one and only interpretation. They were written for a specific purpose to a specific audience. They can have multiple applications which maybe is what you mean. But not multiple interpretations.
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Where are you getting this distinction between “application” and “interpretation”? It’s not something I have seen in any relevant Church documents.

Here’s something that may shed some light from the Pontifical Biblical Commission’s Interpretation of the Bible in the Church:
Granted that tensions can exist in the relationship between various texts of sacred Scripture, interpretation must necessarily show a certain pluralism. No single interpretation can exhaust the meaning of the whole, which is a symphony of many voices. Thus the interpretation of one particular text has to avoid seeking to dominate at the expense of others.
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This is what I meant when I said that there can be more than one interpretation. Now, of course, this does not mean that all interpretations are equally valid. There are good and bad interpretations. But the Church seems to define interpretation in such a way that there can be more than one valid interpretation of a passage (unless I’m missing something or severely misreading the PBC’s document).
 
Joe_5859 said:
Where are you getting this distinction between “application” and “interpretation”? It’s not something I have seen in any relevant Church documents.

Here’s something that may shed some light from the Pontifical Biblical Commission’s Interpretation of the Bible in the Church:

This is what I meant when I said that there can be more than one interpretation. Now, of course, this does not mean that all interpretations are equally valid. There are good and bad interpretations. But the Church seems to define interpretation in such a way that there can be more than one valid interpretation of a passage (unless I’m missing something or severely misreading the PBC’s document).
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You are not misreading it. Basically, as long as it does not go against the Apostolic teachings of the Church, many passages have multiple possible interpretation. The only exceptions are a handfull of verses that mostly have to do with the Sacraments.
 
ralphinal said:
You are not misreading it. Basically, as long as it does not go against the Apostolic teachings of the Church, many passages have multiple possible interpretation. The only exceptions are a handfull of verses that mostly have to do with the Sacraments.
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Thank you. That has been my understanding as well.
 
Joe_5859 said:
Thank you. That has been my understanding as well.
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In some ways, it is a strange thing about the Catholic Church, and some thing that is not understood. The Church has so many dogmas and things that you MUST believe, you would think that the entire Bible has been dogmatically defined. It has not been and will not be anytime soon.
 
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