Is the Magisterium all we need?

[patg]

buffalo:

Would an alternate view of ther truth still be true?

Since we don’t know the absolute truth about most historical matters, it is wise and reasonable to explore alternatives. When it is impossible to be absolute, why insist that you can be?

 

[buffalo]

patg:

Since we don’t know the absolute truth about most historical matters, it is wise and reasonable to explore alternatives. When it is impossible to be absolute, why insist that you can be?

The modernistic approach is to rule out what appears to be unenlightened. I will try a more higher denominator approach rather than a lower.

Ways God communicates to us:

1. Directly
2. Indirectly
3. Dreams
4. Visions
5. Senses

Let’s take the approach that God did not speak directly to Adam but used telepathy (He was in their thoughts). Could He have chosen to use the idea of a literal talking snake to get the moral point across? Sure He could have. Does that mean there was not a talking snake? Or was there a talking snake? If we believe God used a real or visioned snake, am I unenlightened to believe it? Is God required to use only real images? (ie. Revelations?)

Now how does the author of Genesis capture this in writing? How does He transmit this truth to the future generations?

 

[Viajero]

Magnanimity:

Though there is, as Dei Verbum makes clear, this intrinsic connection between the three “legs of the stool,” at the same time, it is also crystal clear that Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture together form the one apostolic deposit of faith, and the Magisterium is not a part of that deposit. My concern is a certain present overemphasis and even misunderstanding of why and when we ought to be looking to our Magisterium for guidance. The deposit of faith is committed primarily and first to the “Church, the whole people of God,” not to the Magisterium.

I agree. I don’t look to the Magisterium as part of the “deposit of faith”, and I believe the knowledge of Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition belongs to all of us, not just the pope and the bishops in union with him. But when conflicts in interpretation occur, I believe that only the Magisterium has been given the gift and the authority, by and through the Holy Spirit, to teach the true meaning of the faith. Nothing they teach is really “new” – it’s just the same Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition put into the context of 21st century living. So in that sense, the Magisterium itself isn’t part of the “deposit of faith”, but its teachings ARE.