A well trodden method of neutering Scripture which is inconvenient to the prejudices and predilections of the current generation. Of course Scripture is meant to be true through all generations. If we think it is not, the fault is in our analysis and not in Scripture.
Condemning the Past for not Being the Present
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
If we think it is not, the fault is in our analysis and not in Scripture.
Everything that is not yes or is not no is from the evil one. It’s almost as if PF wishes to expand lukewarm Catholics. That is a dead end and will do nothing to grow the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart in this world or the next.
Prayers continuing for this poor soul who has such a great responsibility. God help him.
“Christ” is the gate.
You can not jump over the fence.
Everyone must go to Christ in order to enter.
Liberal progressive Scripture commentary CRAP.
The various study notes in the Catholic NABRE, the Catholic Study Bible from Oxford University Press, the Little Rock Catholic Study Bible, the New Jerusalem Bible, etc., and every modern Catholic Commentary like the Paulist Biblical Commentary, the New Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture, the New Jerome Biblical Commentary, etc, and even many of the study notes in the vaunted Navarre Study Bible series are full of that liberal progressive CRAP loved so much in the Episcopal Church USA. The ONLY really GOOD Catholic Study Bibles I have found are Scott Hahn’s Ignatius Catholic Study Bible – New Testament (he never finished the Old Testament), and Father George C. Haydock’s 1859 Study Bible edition in the Duoay-Rheims. Every single thing else produced in English under the auspices and approval of the US Council of Catholic Bishops is CRAP. I am currently sitting in my home office library which is filled with Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant Study Bibles and Commentaries. The truth is that I rely more on Orthodox and Protestant Evangelical Study Bibles and Commentaries than ANYTHING from the worthless and useless US Council of Catholic Bishops. And one last thing: the Catholic NABRE and the Protestant NIV ought to be burned together – every single copy worldwide.
LQC: “The ONLY really GOOD Catholic Study Bibles I have found are Scott Hahn’s Ignatius Catholic Study Bible – New Testament (he never finished the Old Testament)”
It should be out by Christmas 🙂
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets. That task I reserve for my representative two millennia hence.”
LQC, 100% agree. By the way, Scott Hahn and Curtis Mitch are still working on the OT. Their commentary on the Psalms was just released last year by Ignatius.
In fairness, the highlighted section is more or less an echo of what is contained in the GI of the LotH. I think that’s probably the greater scandal, in that official liturgical books more or less institutionalize the notion that some of the Psalms and parts of some of the Psalms should be omitted from the public prayer of the Church because of “a certain psychological difficulty…”
For reference, here’s the quote from the GI:
131.”Three psalms (58, 83, and 109) have been omitted from the psalter cycle because of their curses; in the same way, some verses have been omitted from certain psalms, as noted at the head of each. The reason for the omission is a certain psychological difficulty, even though the psalms of imprecation are in fact used as prayer in the New Testament, for example, Rv 6:10, and in no sense to encourage the use of curses.”
Well, there are a lot of situations in the OT that I’ll never be in. I don’t have daughters, so I’ll never have to kill them, or worry about them getting me drunk and sleeping with me. Stuff like that.
As Catholics, we’ve never held that the OT is a guide for life. We’re not evangelicals; we understand the value of guidance in interpretation.
The Old Testament is to be read through the eyes of the New, but not summarily discarded. Even the Douay-Rheims footnotes cautioned against taking the imprecations in some of the Psalms as permission for cursing or revenge among Christians. But we all know what’s going on: libs who want sexual license approved by the Church. Begin with cancelling selected and misread Psalms so you can end with cancelling the Sixth Commandment.
Sounds like we all like the same bibles and understand that footnotes are not Scripture.
I will say, Pinky, that I teach Deuteronomym with much respect as a “ guide for life” as it really became a foundational document often quoted by Jesus