Questions about Bible self interpretting

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MaggieOH:
No. The Holy Spirit used human authors to write the manuscripts and the Holy Spirit helped the Church to discern what belonged in the Canon of the Scripture for both the Old and the New Testament. God did not write the New Testament in the most literal sense of “write”.

MaggieOH
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Good answer, the clearest answer in this thread I believe. God indeed inspired humans to write, and established a Church to recognize clearly what these inspired writers wrote as against those that were not.

Gerry 🙂
 
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RedDeathsMask:
I only hope the Bible Nazis don’t come in here.
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RedDeathsMask , Your Profile says you belong to the “true church”. Would you please tell us which Church is “the true Church?”

Also who are the “bible nazis”?
 
Hello, Church Millitant:) Love your thread,I just have to let you in on something that I think by your poll you might already be aware of.There are an insurgence of posters who say the Bible is telling them things:eek: Scriptures are explaining the meaning to them;) Where are these talking Bibles coming from?How in the world will our Holy Church not buckle under the threat of the talking Bibles?(sarcasm)😃 God Bless
 
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Lisa4Catholics:
Hello, Church Millitant:) Love your thread,I just have to let you in on something that I think by your poll you might already be aware of.There are an insurgence of posters who say the Bible is telling them things:eek: Scriptures are explaining the meaning to them;) Where are these talking Bibles coming from?How in the world will our Holy Church not buckle under the threat of the talking Bibles?(sarcasm)😃 God Bless
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Sheesh! First “Talking Phone Books” now Talking Bibles… What next?
Isn’t this suggested somewhere as a sign of the end of the world?
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RedDeathsMask , Your Profile says you belong to the “true church”. Would you please tell us which Church is “the true Church?”
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The Catholic Church.
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YAQUBOS:
Also who are the “bible nazis”?
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They are classified with the Blonde Pigmie Amazonian Jungle Bunnies.

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Pssst… Church Militant, this is my Alias!
 
It seems I made a typo, oops. I meant Exporter, not YAQUBOS. After how he gave me the impresion that Catholics are not Christian, he has been on my mind. I’m glad that Eucharist thread is closed.
 
Protestants will say, no matter their spiritual state, that they can privately interpret the Scriptures. We Catholics look to the descendants of the Apostles, the Magesterium, to interpret Scriptures. If Priests, who may have eight years of Priestly Studies, and cannot officially interpret the Scriptures then who do we think we are? Private interpretation is an invalid rule.:tiphat:
 
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Exporter:
Protestants will say, no matter their spiritual state, that they can privately interpret the Scriptures. We Catholics look to the descendants of the Apostles, the Magesterium, to interpret Scriptures. If Priests, who may have eight years of Priestly Studies, and cannot officially interpret the Scriptures then who do we think we are? Private interpretation is an invalid rule.:tiphat:
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That’s for sure!
 
So… So far, what have we decided?
(In the words of that teacher from Ferris Beuller’s Day Off, “Anyone…anyone?”
 
Church Militant:
So… So far, what have we decided?
(In the words of that teacher from Ferris Beuller’s Day Off, “Anyone…anyone?”
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I haven’t seen that movie for years.As far the thread goes I put my trust into the authority of those who were given the job by Jesus himself:D God Bless
 
I believe that the phrase Scripture interprets Scripture is what we may refer to as the** perspicuity** of scripture, that scripture in and by itself is clear and can be interpreted by the believer. If it isn’t clear to the one reading it, the problem lies in the reader, not in the written word. Hence, there is no need for theological instruction; no need for scholarly exegesis; no need for magisterial interpretation. Everyone can thus read and understand it for himself.

Does it strike us that those non-Catholic sects who hold onto this teaching mostly disagree among themselves, even on central teachings like the Eucharist.

Gerry 🙂
 
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MaggieOH:
Now I am going a little off topic with this comment: If Scripture interprets Scripture, where does OSAS come from?

Maggie
(who thinks OSAS is a doctrine based on self, not God)
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I’ve always wondered about it. Even Protestant denominations do not agree on OSAS.

Gerry 🙂
 
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RebAvomai:
BS’D

Shalom,

Judaism has always had a final authority on interpetation of the scriptures, more to do so with the Law itself rather then spiritual matters.

That being said, I am sure there are similiarties between Judaism’s Rabbincal Authority and Rome’s Authority (Papal infallbility is it called? )
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RebAvomai,

thank you for the clarification on Judaism’s Rabbinical Authority.

It is not Papal Infallibility that is similar but the Teaching Authority of the Church that is known as the Magisterium that is similar.

Maggie
 
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RobedWithLight:
I’ve always wondered about it. Even Protestant denominations do not agree on OSAS.

Gerry 🙂
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Gerry,

you are not wrong on that issue. I have been in dialogue with a Calvinist who rejects OSAS 🙂 but he believes in T.U.L.I.P.

Maggie
 
jeffreedy789 said:
‘oh LOOK! the new testament!’
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Look up in the sky. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it Superman? No, it is the KJV in English being dropped upon us 🙂

Maggie
(being naughty)
 
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Well…I would have to agree that things like OSAS and TULIP are the result of the very “scripture interprets scripture” syndrome that we see expounded upon us day after day…But it is a very valid point that IF that was the work of the Holy Spirit, then all would be in agreement. Lacking that evidence…who then is said to be the father of confusion in the Bible?
 
Did I start something over something I don’t personally believe in?
 
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