Is this response of mine in line with Catholic teaching

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The person has said that he believes in God but not the Bible b/c there are things in the Bible which he had a hard time with.

“I think that you are right, at least in a sense. A person can follow God without ever having heard of the Bible or anything in it. The Bible is not the key to God or Christianity. Love is. The Bible, and the Church (which penned the Bible, it didn’t fall from the sky!) can sure help us with that though: the two greatest commandments. Even having read the Bible you aren’t necessarily obligated to be convinced of it right away, or possibly even at all. Let’s say you were a Muslim for instance, born and raised, and I came to your country and told you the Gospel but you didn’t convert. Does that mean you rejected the Gospel? Not necessarily, b/c you may have needed more evidence or some other kind of revelation, only God can judge a person’s heart and the real motive behind our decisions. The problem would occur if you realized that the Bible really was God’s revelation and still rejected it, or if you simply rejected God out of self love. But seeking to follow God with all our hearts with whatever limited understanding we have at the time is more important than having greater understanding and not following. There’s a parable Jesus tells about two sons, the father asks one to do a chore and he says “no” but does it, the other says “yes” and doesn’t do it. He says the first is better off b/c he has done the father’s will.”
 
No I wouldn’t say your response is fully in line with Catholic teaching.

I suggest you read the Catechism section on Divine Revelation for starters.
 
Well I have a SIL who converted for my brother and she doesn’t believe in the Bible.

As a Catholic growing up we never read the bible and I didn’t start until the age of 40,

and so many years wasted of mine not reading the Bible. I wish I would of started to read it when I learned to read.
 
Friend there is much good and bad stuff in that post i may have a hard time interpreting it 'cos i don’t know what you meant exactly, the post can be misleading the church teach that christ is THE way not love and the bible contain that unique revelation, if somebody has a problem with the bible the he let go and let Gods word reform his/her life you shouldn’t advice him to forget the bible and just love. If you love that person you will show him Christ the ultimate expression of love and you will show him the bible as a unique revelation of love. You will help him to put his faith in christ for without him the law of love will be a burden.
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The person has said that he believes in God but not the Bible b/c there are things in the Bible which he had a hard time with.

“I think that you are right, at least in a sense. A person can follow God without ever having heard of the Bible or anything in it. The Bible is not the key to God or Christianity. Love is. The Bible, and the Church (which penned the Bible, it didn’t fall from the sky!) can sure help us with that though: the two greatest commandments. Even having read the Bible you aren’t necessarily obligated to be convinced of it right away, or possibly even at all. Let’s say you were a Muslim for instance, born and raised, and I came to your country and told you the Gospel but you didn’t convert. Does that mean you rejected the Gospel? Not necessarily, b/c you may have needed more evidence or some other kind of revelation, only God can judge a person’s heart and the real motive behind our decisions. The problem would occur if you realized that the Bible really was God’s revelation and still rejected it, or if you simply rejected God out of self love. But seeking to follow God with all our hearts with whatever limited understanding we have at the time is more important than having greater understanding and not following. There’s a parable Jesus tells about two sons, the father asks one to do a chore and he says “no” but does it, the other says “yes” and doesn’t do it. He says the first is better off b/c he has done the father’s will.”
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I’d say no. Catholic teaching is that we must follow Sacred Scripture, Canon Law, the Catechism, the Magisterium, the Pope in forming our moral conscience. The Bible is not excluded. I was never taught to read the Bible, but as an adult I know it’s an important part of The Church’s teaching. For what is not in Scripture, or needs clarification, we look to the other sources that comprise the sum of Church teachings. So, no on the first part.

It’s not clear to me that a Muslim who rejects the Bible is a true rejection. The problem would be if the Muslim was convinced of the Bible’s truths, and then still rejected it – obviously not the usual case to accept something but reject it at the same time. We cannot know what is in the Muslim’s hearts - or in the hearts of other faiths. Opportunity to be exposed to Christianity or Catholicism is a requirement, but the inability to accept teachings is only within the heart of the individual. On the second part, I agree – a Muslim is not necessarily condemned because only God knows.

The Church also teaches us that we are linked to Muslims and Jews through the OT through Abraham.

Nostra Aatate
 
Ok. I never sent this as a response b/c as I was writing it I felt like I was making sense and on the right track, but then after I read the whole thing back I had a gut feeling that it wasn’t right and wasn’t quite on par with what I should say as a Catholic.

I guess my intent was to try and understand where he is at and know that God works with each person where they are at to continue to lead them into the full truth. I think his experience has been mainly with fundamentalists and not with Catholics so I wanted to be able to give him a reasonable response from the Catholic point of view, not to say, go ahead and reject the Bible, but rather to say, the Bible is not the be all end of Christianity. That the search for God is bigger than that and that he could still attempt to follow God in his current situation.

I suppose I probably stressed the wrong points, however. But yeah, it didn’t seem right when I read it back and even though my intent was good, I wanted to make sure I offered good advice.
 
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