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Kiteman Started conversation Nov 6, 2005
A new "teaching document" issued by the Roman Catholic bishops of England, Wales and Scotland warns that Catholics should not take the Bible literally -- that it's not infallible. "We should not expect to find in Scripture full scientific accuracy or complete historical precision," they say in the booklet, "The Gift of Scripture". So what sorts of things aren't accurate? Creation, for one.
Genesis, they note, has two different, and sometimes conflicting, creation stories and cannot be considered "historical." Rather, the bishops say, it simply contains "historical traces." (London Times)
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Good_News Posted Nov 7, 2005
Yes I read something about that in 'The Times'. Most disapointing. I was rather hoping that Benedict XVI would have stopped the Catholic Church's pro-evolution stance but I guess not.
But it shouldn't come as that big a surpise. The Roman Catholic Church counts itself as superior to the Bible and has ignored and twisted the Bible for centuries. Why would they change now?
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