God is the Author of Holy Scripture
YOUCAT Catechism + Catechism of the
Catholic Church Lesson 14
Ave Maria Series
14. Is Sacred Scripture true?
“The books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without
error teach (the) truth…Written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they
have God as their author” (Second
Vatican Council, Dei
Verbum 11). [103-107]
Challoner Douai Bible (1749) First
Corinthians ..... 14 ..... 491
The BIBLE did not fall from heaven in its final form, nor
did God dictate it to human scribes who copied it down mechanically. Rather “God chose certain men who…made full
use of their own faculties and powers so that, though he acted in them and by
them, it was as true authors that they consigned to writing whatever he wanted
written, and no more” (Second Vatican
Council, DV 11). One factor in
recognizing particular texts as Sacred Scripture was their general acceptance
in the Church. In the Christian
communities there had to be a consensus:
“Yes, through this text God himself speaks to us—this is inspired by the
Holy Spirit!” Which of the many original
Christian writings are really inspired by the Holy Spirit has been defined
since the fourth century in the so-called CANON of Sacred Scriptures.
INSPIRATION (Latin:
inspiration=breathing): God’s influence
on the human writers of the Bible, so that he himself should be regarded as the
author of the Sacred Scriptures.
CANON (Greek:
Kanon=measuring rod, rule, norm): the
authoritative collection of Sacred Scriptures in the Old and New Testaments of
the Bible.
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Christ--the unique Word of Sacred
Scripture
103 For this reason, the Church has always
venerated the Scriptures as she venerates the Lord's Body. She never ceases to
present to the faithful the bread of life, taken from the one table of God's
Word and Christ's Body (Dei Verbum 21). Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second
Edition
104 In Sacred Scripture, the Church constantly
finds her nourishment and her strength, for she welcomes it not as a human
word, "but as what it really is, the word of God" (1 Thessalonians
2:13). "In the sacred books,
the Father who is in heaven comes lovingly to meet his children, and talks with
them (Dei Verbum 21) --CCC
105 God is
the author of Sacred Scripture. "The divinely revealed
realities, which are contained and presented in the text of Sacred Scripture,
have been written down under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit (Dei Verbum 11). --CCC
"For Holy Mother Church, relying on the faith of the
apostolic age, accepts as sacred and canonical the books of the Old and the New
Testaments, whole and entire, with all their parts, on the grounds that,
written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their
author, and have been handed on as such to the Church herself (Dei Verbum 11, John 20:31, 2 Timothy 3:16, 2 Peter1:19-21; 2 Pt 3:15-16). -- CCC
106 God inspired the human authors of the
sacred books. "To compose the sacred books, God chose certain men who, all
the while he employed them in this task, made full use of their own faculties
and powers so that, though he acted in them and by them, it was as true authors
that they consigned to writing whatever he wanted written, and no more (Dei Verbum 11). --CCC
107 The inspired books teach the truth.
"Since therefore all that the inspired authors or sacred writers affirm
should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the
books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach that truth which
God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the Sacred
Scriptures (Dei Verbum 11). -- CCC
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