If it makes no sense, it's not true

[Musicatholic]

I’ve often heard Judge Judy on TV say if if something doesn’t make sense…it’s not true. I’ve read the Catholic Bible all the way through 1 time and as I read it, very little of it made any sense to me. I’ve also heard or read that we’re not supposed to understand everything we read in the Bible. Thoughts please.

 

[SyroMalankara]

I’ve often heard Judge Judy on TV say if if something doesn’t make sense…it’s not true. I’ve read the Catholic Bible all the way through 1 time and as I read it, very little of it made any sense to me. I’ve also heard or read that we’re not supposed to understand everything we read in the Bible. Thoughts please.

Why did you specify “Catholic Bible”, as opposed to the “Holy Bible”? If I gave you a book about the scientific theorem on projected light and astrophysics – would any of it make sense to you without context and foundation?

 

[e_c]

Красный цвет. Does that make sense?

 

[dshix]

I’ve often heard Judge Judy on TV say if if something doesn’t make sense…it’s not true. I’ve read the Catholic Bible all the way through 1 time and as I read it, very little of it made any sense to me. I’ve also heard or read that we’re not supposed to understand everything we read in the Bible. Thoughts please.

This is an interesting question.

“Common sense” is often something which we can rely on to know truth, but not always. Why is this?

Because different people have varying degrees of virtue. The more virtue one has, specifically, the more wisdom one has, the easier it is to see the truth of something without having to use critical thinking or the active application of logic. A person’s virtue also has a direct correlation with the ability of their intellect to make correct judgements - the opposite of this is the “darkening of the intellect” that occurs with sin.

The other factor here is natural intelligence. Different people are gifted with different degrees of intelligence, and those who have a greater capacity can often make accurate judgements more quickly - this is often referred to as “common sense”.

 

[reggieM]

I’ve often heard Judge Judy on TV say if if something doesn’t make sense…it’s not true. I’ve read the Catholic Bible all the way through 1 time and as I read it, very little of it made any sense to me. I’ve also heard or read that we’re not supposed to understand everything we read in the Bible. Thoughts please.

Judge Judy is just talking about court cases on TV.

 

[Reepicheep]

I don’t understand advanced physics, nor most chemistry. That doesn’t make any of it untrue.

Further: “I don’t understand this” does not equal “this makes no sense”.

Someone told you we’re not supposed to understand the Bible?
Untrue. Some of the Bible can be very difficult to understand properly but that does not in the least mean we aren’t supposed to understand it.

 

[1neophyte]

I’ve often heard Judge Judy on TV say if if something doesn’t make sense…it’s not true. I’ve read the Catholic Bible all the way through 1 time and as I read it, very little of it made any sense to me. I’ve also heard or read that we’re not supposed to understand everything we read in the Bible. Thoughts please.

I believe she also says “Dumb is forever” and “You don’t know if you’re afoot or horseback.”

 

[GEddie]

Красный цвет. Does that make sense?

It does not, but if I lived in Russia it would.

We are as cultural as we are physical.

ICXC NIKA

 

[GEddie]

Human death, however, is something that will never make sense.

ICXC NIKA

 

[1neophyte]

Human death, however, is something that will never make sense.

ICXC NIKA

Can you elaborate?

 

[pianistclare]

OP, you can’t read the Bible like it’s a story book to be proven or disproven.
Take a good Catholic Bible study at your parish, or begin reading the Ignatius study Bible.

 

[AnneElizabeth]

“Do you know when teenagers are lying? When their mouths move.” and “A good deed never goes unpunished” ← are those statements always true? no.

She’s a tv entertainer. They purposely go through thousands of court cases and pick those that they believe can get good ratings for tv. Therefore, its sensationalism they are after. I wouldn’t place that much faith in things that strive for attention and ratings.

 

[1neophyte]

“Do you know when teenagers are lying? When their mouths move.” and “A good deed never goes unpunished” ← are those statements always true? no.

This is debatable.

 

[AnneElizabeth]

This is debatable.

If its debatable, then its not always true then is it?

 

[1neophyte]

If its debatable, then its not always true then is it?

I meant that your claim of those not always being true is debatable. One could argue that they ARE always true.

 

[1Lord1Faith]

I’ve often heard Judge Judy on TV say if if something doesn’t make sense…it’s not true. I’ve read the Catholic Bible all the way through 1 time and as I read it, very little of it made any sense to me. I’ve also heard or read that we’re not supposed to understand everything we read in the Bible. Thoughts please.

What Judge Judy said makes sense in the context of her job. It is not applicable to a cursory reading of a collection of texts that are all almost older than two thousand years old.

What doesn’t make much sense to me is a 5 year old CAF account with one post about how if something doesn’t make sense it’s not true.

 

[Catholic1954]

I’ve often heard Judge Judy on TV say if if something doesn’t make sense…it’s not true. I’ve read the Catholic Bible all the way through 1 time and as I read it, very little of it made any sense to me. I’ve also heard or read that we’re not supposed to understand everything we read in the Bible. Thoughts please.

Judge Judy is a street smart, entertaining TV judge, but she is hardly qualified in theology. The Bible is a volume about our salvation history; some of the writings are thousands of years old and made more sense to the writers of the day than now, but that does not mean it’s not true. I don’t know where you got the idea we are supposed to understand everything we read in the Bible, but that Bible Studys are around to help us to do that.

 

[peter26]

If it makes no sense, its not true. Logically correct. Only problem is something may make sense to me and not to you. On a certain level, the Bible makes sense precisely because it is the inspired Word of God. But of course you can discern different doctrines from the Bible because it makes sense differently for different people. At the end of the day, you have to decide what you believe and what makes sense for you.

 

[grannymh]

I’ve often heard Judge Judy on TV say if if something doesn’t make sense…it’s not true. I’ve read the Catholic Bible all the way through 1 time and as I read it, very little of it made any sense to me. I’ve also heard or read that we’re not supposed to understand everything we read in the Bible. Thoughts please.

My thought. I am glad that a little of the Bible made some sense to you.

The Gospels I learned by ear from homilies and teachers. So I may be able to make some sense for you in that section. But, there is a section I have ignored and will probably continue to ignore. My true love is the first three chapters of Genesis and Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. When I was a child we added to the four names “Bless the bed that I lay on.”

If you are willing to share some section with me, I will try to make it more understandable.