YOUCAT Catechism + Catechism of the
Catholic Church Lesson 15
Ave Marie Series
15. How can Scripture be “truth” if not
everything in it is right?
The Bible is not meant to convey precise historical
information or scientific findings to us.
Moreover, the authors were children of their time. They shared the cultural ideas of the world
around them and often were also dominated by the errors of the world. Nevertheless, everything that man must know
about God and the way of his salvation is found with infallible certainty in
Sacred Scripture. [106-107, 109]
“Not everything in it is right” in
this photo of me taken by my pilot from the forward seat of our L-19 army
observation plane on a “mission” over North Korea in 1953. My heart was really for peace, not war. When serving atop Hill 155, a ground
observation point overlooking the expanse beneath filled with conflict, I would
pray my rosary for peace, not war.
Indeed, I was a “child of the times.” Not that I, Don L. Bragg, am implying that I am inspired! ….. 15
BIBLE (Latin: biblia=scrolls,
books) is what Jews and Christians call a collection of Sacred Scriptures that
came into being over a period of approximately 1500 years (from Moses to St.
John the Evangelist) and is for them the charter of their faith. The Christian Bible is considerably more
extensive than the Jewish Bible, because besides the Jewish Scriptures it also
contains the Catholic four Gospels, the letters of St. Paul, and other writings
of the early Church.
[106-107, 109]
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.)71 --Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second
Edition
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
109 In Sacred Scripture, God speaks to man in a
human way. To interpret Scripture correctly, the reader must be attentive to
what the human authors truly wanted to affirm, and to what God wanted to reveal
to us by their words (refer to Dei Verbum 12, subsection 1). --CCC
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