The Old Testament - is it for REAL?

[Debora123]

I haven’t been sure how to proceed since ddarko has been banned, since I don’t want to be arguing with an absent adversary.

But I don’t think his position was weird. He was appealing to the longstanding exegetical tradition as summarized in the CE. The question is: do Catholics need to accept traditional exegetical/historical opinions as Tradition. The CE author, Driscoll, thought so, and ddarko agreed. The majority of contemporary Catholic scholars seem to think not–even the Pope is willing to accept some of the findings of modern historical scholarship, so I don’t think this is by any means a fringe or heretical opinion.

Edwin

Yeah, It’s been a long time coming for that guy I think.

I thought it was weird because he kept saying we were going against Church teaching even after we showed him multiple sources stating that the Church doesn’t require us to have those beliefs - including multiple trusted apologists and CAF’s encyclopedia.