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| Clare | Thursday, 5. August 2010, 20:43 Post #76 |
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Yet, Gerry, you choose to jettison that solemnly defined by three ecumenical councils teaching in favour of your understanding of a not solemnly defined teaching of one pastoral council, which defined nothing, and which doesn't really contradict the solemnly defined teaching anyway. |
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| Clare | Thursday, 5. August 2010, 20:45 Post #77 |
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| Clare | Thursday, 5. August 2010, 20:48 Post #78 |
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So, St Augustine and St Gregory the Great were "fundamentalists" too. Edited by Clare, Thursday, 5. August 2010, 20:49.
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| Gerard | Thursday, 5. August 2010, 21:20 Post #79 |
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I guess Dei Verbum is too subtle for a Fundamentalist to cope with. I guess the arguments in this thread are too subtle for you to understand. Gerry |
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| Rose of York | Thursday, 5. August 2010, 21:39 Post #80 |
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Clare, may I ask, are you a biblical fundamentalist? |
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| Mairtin | Thursday, 12. August 2010, 11:00 Post #81 |
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Why shouldn't we, Clare? You and we accept scientific opinion every time we press a switch and expect our electric light to come on; we accept every time we use our computers or our cars or any of the myriad of things that science has brought us. We place our very lives in the hands of scientists when we swallow drugs given to us by our doctors or let them knock us out completely and slice us open with a knife. Why on earth should we reject scientific opinion in other areas when the only people opposing it are doing so purely on the basis of an interpretation of the Bible that is not even endorsed by our own Church? |
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| Mairtin | Thursday, 12. August 2010, 11:12 Post #82 |
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We did indeed, Clare, and as far as I recall, the debate ran out of steam when I asked you to give an actual example where science contradicts Church teaching and you were unable to do so. That, in my opinion, is where the confusion about St. Augustine and Pope Leo is coming from. What they are saying is that particular interpretations of Holy Scripture may be wrong and should be revised when science shows them to be wrong; science, however, can never contradict the underlying truth of Holy Scripture. A good example of this is Creation as described in Genesis. Science has incontrovertibly shown that it did not take place over six literal days of 24 hours duration but our Church has never ever taught that Genesis should be read literally so there is no contradiction there. What our Church has always taught is that everything in Creation came from God and science has nothing whatsoever to say on that aspect and never can say anything because it is outside the realms of science. |
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| Mairtin | Thursday, 12. August 2010, 11:22 Post #83 |
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In regard to the rather surreal debate about God being the author of scriptures, I am reminded of the excellent advice given by OsB a week or two ago in another thread viz. "Metaphors are valuable but vulnerable things. They need very careful handling or they collapse.". |
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| Rose of York | Thursday, 12. August 2010, 12:10 Post #84 |
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Are we to accept that God picked certain people, used them as zombies, guided their hands while they wrote, without considering, words, paragraphs and chapters of documents that would eventually be accepted as the Holy Scriptures. and when they had finished had not a clue to what they had written, or what had possessed them to do it? |
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| pat | Friday, 13. August 2010, 01:13 Post #85 |
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Funnily enough, that's exactly what muslims believe about the qur'an - that it was magically dictated to Muhammad who didn't know what he was writing. |
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| Clare | Friday, 13. August 2010, 12:31 Post #86 |
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No. That is rather a caricature, Rose. No one suggests that except people who want to mock those who believe the Holy Ghost is the primary author of scripture, which is what the Church teaches. Edited by Clare, Friday, 13. August 2010, 12:49.
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| Anne-Marie | Friday, 13. August 2010, 13:31 Post #87 |
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Minor problem with your point, Pat, is that what we have today is the SECOND version he wrote - he having accepted that the first version had been given him by the Devil, rather than by God! It has always rather bothered me that if we are to accept his teachings in Islam - and even he could not tell which was coming from God and which from Satan - we must, by definition, have a very big problem! |
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| OsullivanB | Friday, 13. August 2010, 17:42 Post #88 |
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I still found it a rewarding read. |
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| pat | Saturday, 14. August 2010, 00:10 Post #89 |
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Just goes to show, you should always keep a backup copy! |
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| PJD | Saturday, 14. August 2010, 07:03 Post #90 |
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"we must, by definition, have a very big problem!" Not we Anne-Marie. They. PJD |
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