Survey

[Water_of_Life]

I’m not sure if this is the right place for this, but I’m doing a favour for a friend. For our religion class this term, we have to select a sacred text, and analyse how it interacts with those who follow its teachings. My friend knows that I’m a member here, and requested that I post a few questions. Yes or no answers will suffice. No pressure at all to answer it.

Survey Questions:

1. Would you call yourself a strong Catholic?
2. Does the Bible guide your actions?
3. Does the Bible play a significant role in your life?
4. Do you attend Mass once or more times per week?
5. Do you have a general knowledge of sacred texts of other religions?
6. Do you think that the Bible has a significant amount in common with the sacred texts of other religions?

 

[Filia_Secunda]

Question 1: Depends on what you mean. If you mean I believe the basic things the Church teaches, and try to come decently close to following it, then yes. If you mean I love God with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength, and choose Him in my actions over anything else . . . then no.
Question 2: Not really. Should though.
Q 3: Yes, I pray the Liturgy of the Hours (Psalms and Bible readings for different times of the day) at home. It’s awesome - my intellect has gained a lot from it, and so would my will if it wasn’t such a coward.
Q 4: Yes.
Q 5: No. I may in the future, though - maybe the Koran, once I’m sure I know the Catechism, so I can find out which people are right about what Islam teaches; or maybe the Jewish canon (though I forget its name), because Judaism (the Church’s father) is so fascinating.
Q 6: I don’t have enough data yet.

The Catholic Church (you most likely know this, but your friend might not - I don’t know his or her religion) doesn’t depend on the Bible as the one source of her teachings. It’s just one of her resources, along with the Catechism and other things, under the teaching authority of the Church herself (or more concretely, her past and present bishops).

 

[phil_at_dayboro]

No
No
No
No
No
No this is something I’m not confident about,An educated mind would be the one to ask

 

[Petaro]

I’m not sure if this is the right place for this, but I’m doing a favour for a friend. For our religion class this term, we have to select a sacred text, and analyse how it interacts with those who follow its teachings. My friend knows that I’m a member here, and requested that I post a few questions. Yes or no answers will suffice. No pressure at all to answer it.

Survey Questions:

1. Would you call yourself a strong Catholic?
2. Does the Bible guide your actions?
3. Does the Bible play a significant role in your life?
4. Do you attend Mass once or more times per week?
5. Do you have a general knowledge of sacred texts of other religions?
6. Do you think that the Bible has a significant amount in common with the sacred texts of other religions?

In so far as all the Catholics I know are sinners believing in the truth of the Catholic Church as the one true catholic and apostolic church binding in heaven and on earth. Yes
The teachings of Jesus as written in the Bible and the lives of the Apostles and Our Lady in the Acts guide my life.
I am house bound on 24/7 oxygen so no. I think I am forgiven under canon law and more importantly by Christ.
I understand the major teachings of the Mormons; Muslims; some Jewish beliefs.
I believe that the moral tenets of Natural law are held in common. The God of the Jews is our God. The Old Testament is mostly held in common with the Jews. Mormons are not Christians nor do they believe in one God.

 

[Sean_St_Jude]

1. When you speak of significance, I would say ‘no’ because the Bible finds its fulfillment in Jesus Christ who proclaimed, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.” And Jesus claimed to be one with the Father, “I and the Father are one,” Jn 14:6. (Note how he says 'I" first).

Other religions point to disciplines, books or to God, a god, or other gods and goddesses. No one has ever genuinely claimed equality with God, except Jesus.

 

[JRKH]

**1. Would you call yourself a strong Catholic? **
Yes - but far from perfect.

2. Does the Bible guide your actions?
Yes in the sense that I do tend to be guided more by the gospels than anything else…
No in the sense that I believe that God, more than any text, is my guide.

**3. Does the Bible play a significant role in your life? **
Yes

4. Do you attend Mass once or more times per week?
Yes

5. Do you have a general knowledge of sacred texts of other religions?
No

6. Do you think that the Bible has a significant amount in common with the sacred texts of other religions?
In view of may answer to #5, I have to say - I do not know.

Peace
James

 

[InNomineDomini]

Survey Questions:
**

1. Would you call yourself a strong Catholic? **

I would call myself a serious Catholic. If by “strong” you mean that I, by God’s grace, persevere through difficulties, then yes.
**
2. Does the Bible guide your actions? **

Yes, so long as it is understood that I am a Catholic, and therefore do not adhere to any type of understanding of your question that is motivated by sola Scriptura.

But Divine Revelation, both in the forms of Sacred Scripture as well as Sacred Tradition, guides my actions.

**3. Does the Bible play a significant role in your life? **

Yes, but see above.
**
4. Do you attend Mass once or more times per week? **

If this is an either/or question, then the answer is the latter. I average maybe 3 to 6 times per week, and the Mass I attended today was my seventh day in a row.
**
5. Do you have a general knowledge of sacred texts of other religions?**

I interpret “general knowledge” to mean that I have an ability to tell you what Lao Tzu wrote, where we could read about Krishna, which religion thinks their holy book is co-eternal with God, what Crowley claimed to have translated, and what book was allegedly first written on golden plates. The answer is yes.
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6. Do you think that the Bible has a significant amount in common with the sacred texts of other religions?**

Religious texts as well as religions in general have much in common. However, I certainly consider the Christian worldview to be unique in every aspect of its essence, and Scripture unquestionably reflects this uniqueness.

 

[Mary_Ellen]

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. No
6. Don’t know.

 

[Sunbreak]

1. Would you call yourself a strong Catholic?
   No
2. Does the Bible guide your actions?
   No
3. Does the Bible play a significant role in your life?
   No
4. Do you attend Mass once or more times per week?
   Yes
5. Do you have a general knowledge of sacred texts of other religions?
   Yes
6. Do you think that the Bible has a significant amount in common with the sacred texts of other religions?
   Yes

 

[LPS]

I’m not sure if this is the right place for this, but I’m doing a favour for a friend. For our religion class this term, we have to select a sacred text, and analyse how it interacts with those who follow its teachings. My friend knows that I’m a member here, and requested that I post a few questions. Yes or no answers will suffice. No pressure at all to answer it.

Survey Questions:

1. Would you call yourself a strong Catholic?
2. Does the Bible guide your actions?
3. Does the Bible play a significant role in your life?
4. Do you attend Mass once or more times per week?
5. Do you have a general knowledge of sacred texts of other religions?
6. Do you think that the Bible has a significant amount in common with the sacred texts of other religions?

1. I consider myself first and foremost a follower of Christ and also a Catholic who loves my church. Sometimes it seems people put their identity in their church denomination above all else (and I think that’s true of some people in all denominations). I am growing stronger in my Catholic faith and rely heavily on the many tools she offers me to help me grow closer to God.
2. Yes.
3. Yes. I love the Bible; I read it every single day.
4. Yes. Always on the weekend, but I also try to go at least once during the week.
5. Only general ideas of what other texts teach. I don’t know whether my ideas of them are accurate or not.
6. Perhaps in moral teachings it does have quite a bit in common with other religious texts. However, I think there are profound differences in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the gods of other religions.