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ni8_shadow
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Does the Church derive it’s main doctirnes from the NT? Most of the apologetics books I read only use ref to the NT to defend the doctrines.
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Mintaka
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Both the OT and NT are used as a basis for Catholic doctrine and practice, because they are both the Word of God. The more you study Catholic beliefs, the more you’ll see how they depend on interpreting the Bible as a whole, with the OT setting forth God’s promises and intentions and the NT answering with how He fulfilled them to a greater extent than any thought possible. This importance of both OT and NT is why the first reading at Mass comes from the OT, and why there is always a Psalm.
In apologetics, it is often more useful to cut to the chase and tell people where to find reasons in the Gospels, or in the letters of St. Paul, because often that’s the only scripture they know very well or accept uncritically. (Some people think the OT doesn’t really count, or even that the God in the OT was a different god!) But pretty much anything in the Gospels or Paul has a scriptural background from or reference to the OT. It’s all connected and meant to be so, which is why Our Lord was pretty definite about that on the road to Emmaus.
In apologetics, it is often more useful to cut to the chase and tell people where to find reasons in the Gospels, or in the letters of St. Paul, because often that’s the only scripture they know very well or accept uncritically. (Some people think the OT doesn’t really count, or even that the God in the OT was a different god!) But pretty much anything in the Gospels or Paul has a scriptural background from or reference to the OT. It’s all connected and meant to be so, which is why Our Lord was pretty definite about that on the road to Emmaus.
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Hi Ni8,
The Church gets its doctrines from the deposit of revelation handed down to the apostles by Christ and by the apostles to their successors. The Bible is PART of that tradition.It is not surprising that the New Testament is quoted more often than the old, since it is a question of expounding the doctrine of Christ, God made man in the New Testament.
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The Church gets its doctrines from the deposit of revelation handed down to the apostles by Christ and by the apostles to their successors. The Bible is PART of that tradition.It is not surprising that the New Testament is quoted more often than the old, since it is a question of expounding the doctrine of Christ, God made man in the New Testament.
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