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Catholic Bible

Sep 22 2008, 6:52 PM EDT by GeneDouglas

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The entry on the Catholic Bible by Cathtruth.com says that Catholics don't interpret the Bible, because they wrote it, with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. They only explain it. Only protestants must interpret the Bible, attempting to determine the real intentions of the authors, because they didn't write it themselves.

There are some logical problems with this. One is the fact that when the first manuscripts of the Bible were written, an organized Catholic church didn't exist. Another being that the original writers are long since dead, and modern Catholics are new guys, just like modern Protestants. None living today were around at the time. The writer of that statement seems to be guilty of arrogance, or at least exaggerated smugness.

Of course there's another element. Since the original writing, there has been the task of selecting which writings to include, which was a human endeavor. There is no claim or evidence for supernatural guidance by the people making those decisions. There is also evidence of changes in the manuscripts since the first copies were written. I doubt the Catholic church wants to take credit for that.

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Aug 6 2008, 5:16 PM EDT by GeneDouglas

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Creation -- In the beginning...

Aug 6 2008, 5:13 PM EDT by GeneDouglas

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In the beginning there was darkness in the void, and God said, "Let there be light." And there was light.

And God said, "Oh, man, this is great! For a trillion centuries I've been sitting here in the dark. Haven't been able to see my hand in front of my face. Now, no more bumping into things. Wonderful!"

And God saw that when it was light all the time, he couldn't get any sleep, so he said, "Let it be dark half the time. Say, about 12 hours at a time." And the sun went out, and God said, "Oh, yeah. That's good. I've gotta get some shuteye."

And the next day God said, "Jeez, there's nothing but water around here. I wanted to make some creatures that look like me, but so far, all I've got is fish. Let us raise the ocean floor so there's something to walk on. Oh, that's good. A little muddy, but it'll dry out."

And God said, "What am I going to call it? Terra, maybe. No, I'll call it mundo. Oh, I know. I'll call it Earth! Yes, I always preferred Elizabethan English. It'll be called Earth."

"Oh, here it's getting dark again. I may be God, but it takes me all day to do this much. Time to turn in."

In the morning, God got up, finished his morning constitution, and got back to work.

"I'm going to need a roof over all this stuff. I'll make this solid blue canopy, and call it sky. But you can't see it in the dark. I'll punch some holes in it, and call them stars. You can't see them in the daytime, but when the light shines through the holes, they'll be pretty in the dark. Oh, yeah. That's good."

And God said, "Oh, man. I'm getting sleepy again. I'll get back to this in the morning."

And God said, "Hey, we're running out of letters. Later."

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