Do Catholics Interpret Scripture Literally?

2 minute apologetics by John Martignoni, president of the Bible Christian Society. www.biblechristiansociety.com

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[badpanda84]

The funny thing is that its a bit of both.

ON the one hand most catholics dont take the creation story in gensis literialty (as far as I am aware most catholics beleive in evoultion)

Yet when Jesus said to eat his flesh and drink his blood they decide to take that literially

[haojiesheng]

Catholic Belief:The creation by God of all things at the beginning of time. The special creation by God of man. The formation of woman from man. The unity of the human race. The original happiness of our first parents in a state of justice. The divine command laid upon man by God to prove obedience. The transgression of that command at the instigation of the devil in the form of a serpent. The fall of our original parents from their primitive state of innocence. The promise of a future redeemer.

[chichi2joe]

Why labour so much on literal and unliteral? The Bible interprets itself! What does cats and dogs has to do with understanding scriptures.

Things are just messed up when churches tries to fit bible passages into their teachings instead of believing the bible as it is! The Word of God is there to correct us not men to correct the word of God.

[haojiesheng]

The lesson of this video is quite simply that a text without a context is only a pretext.

It seems as though you missed the context of this video, as demonstrated by your comment about cats and dogs.

[MrsMcCullough86]

How do you explain that the Apocrypha contains fabulous statements which not only contradict the "canonical" scriptures but themselves. For example, in the two Books of Maccabees, Antiochus Epiphanes is made to die three different deaths in three different places?

[haojiesheng]

Would you please provide the book, chapter, and verses of the instances you speak of please?

As far as the deuterocanonicals contradicting the rest of Scripture, I am not aware of any instances of that happening. As far as those texts making "fabulous statements", well most of Scripture does: Moses parts the Red Sea, Jesus changes water into wine, people resurrecting from the dead, etc.

[terryooooooo]

If the Bible inteprets itself., then why is protestantism divided into hundreds of denominations that teach contradictory, conflicting doctrines?

[primethenpaint]

James 2:24 & 26: See how a person is justified by works and not by faith alone....faith without works is dead.

[jasmineflower05]

I AGREE THE CATHOLIC CHRISTIANITY STILL REMAINS THE SAME WHEREAS PROTESTANTISM IS FOREVER CHANGING AND HAVE LIKE YOU SAY CONFLICTING TEACHINGS,WHICH ALOT OF PROTESTANT TEACHINGS DONT TEACH THE SCRIPTURE CORRECTLY, I KNOW BECAUSE I USED TO BE A PROTESTANT. WHICH THE NAME CATHOLIC IN GREEK MEANS "UNIVERSAL OR WHOLE" AND IT IS TRUE. NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO ON THE WORLD, THE CATHOLIC MASS AND RELIGION IS THE SAME, JUST IN A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE,THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS THE ONLY UNIVERSAL CHRISTIAN FAITH,

[jasmineflower05]

@terryooooooo exactly !!!!

[jasmineflower05]

the Catholic Church is the true Church and the Bible is actually a Catholic book, the Catholic Church was the first Christian Church established by Christ and Peter was told by God to build a church on the rock and that Church was the Catholic Church, the bride of Christ.

[Gazdo01]

@badpanda84 Read John chapter 6... When Jesus was questionned, he had every occasion in the world to explain the meaning of his words. He could have said something like "it's all in a metaphorical sense"... But what did he do instead? He REAFFIRMS the Truth... "My flesh is REAL FOOD and my blood is REAL drink".

Notice also the word that he uses. When Jesus asked that we EAT his flesh, the greek word there is not the typical "phagein" (eat) but "trogein" (gnaw)

[999Thip]

@gothicavictoria1341 thank you, i did not think that jesus ever said anything about being catholic., if one reads the bible, they themselves will find out the truth-

we are to come to jesus ,and ask him to come into our lives,and accept him as our savior..

its through jesus we are saved, not a name of a religion.

jesus is more then the center,friend. he is the way,the truth,and the life.

[gothicavictoria1341]

@999Thip Well, Jesus did establish the Catholic Church. Through Apostolic succession after St. John the Apostle died, the church was run by bishops who were given authority by the original Apostles. Did Jesus name the Catholic Church, no. Catholic comes from the Greek word, kath'houlou, which means 'universal' or 'whole', and it first appeared in a letter by St. Ignatius of Antioch, a disciple of St. John around 110 A.D

[999Thip]

@gothicavictoria1341 i want you to tell me what catholic means and at what yr it started.

surly you are not going to tell me jesus named it.

tic toc

[gothicavictoria1341]

@999Thip What does mentioning Jesus have to do with anything? He is already the center of the Catholic faith. We use Scripture, which is the word of God, to explain why do certain things. And don't you know that Jesus founded the Catholic Church over 2000 years ago. We believe our interpretation of the Bible to be correct because Jesus said so in Matt. 10:20, 16:18, and 18:17-18. Also Acts 9:2 the Church is identified as the 'Way'

[tonganfoilole69]

This man think he knows everything; he doesn't know shit, Catholic made the bble, and they know every meaning of it. If Catholic didn't understand the bble, they wouldn't do what they're doing and believe, but because they wrote the bble and they understand every meaning of the bble that's what they're doing. everything we do is in the bble, but u pple don't understand it a bit so go and search 4 the truth...