Juicio Brennan

Is it cold in here or is hell freezing over?

The Catholic bishops of England, Wales, and Scotland are warning their congregations and those studying scripture not to expect “total accuracy” from the Bible. As for Genesis and creationism, they insist that the scripture cannot be “historical” and, at most, may contain “historical traces”.

In regards to fundamentalism, they also state:

Such an approach is dangerous, for example, when people of one nation or group see in the Bible a mandate for their own superiority, and even consider themselves permitted by the Bible to use violence against others.

500 hundred years too late?

Here are some of the passages the Bishops addressed, as formatted by the Times Online:

BELIEVE IT OR NOT

UNTRUE

Genesis ii, 21-22

So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while
he slept he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh;
and the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a
woman and brought her to the man

Genesis iii, 16

God said to the woman [after she was beguiled by the serpent]:
“I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall
bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he
shall rule over you.”

Matthew xxvii, 25

The words of the crowd: “His blood be on us and on our children.”

Revelation xix,20

And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in
its presence had worked the signs by which he deceived those who had
received the mark of the beast and those who worshipped its image.
These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with
brimstone.”

TRUE

Exodus iii, 14

God reveals himself to Moses as: “I am who I am.”

Leviticus xxvi,12

“I will be your God, and you shall be my people.”

Exodus xx,1-17

The Ten Commandments

Matthew v,7

The Sermon on the Mount

Mark viii,29

Peter declares Jesus to be the Christ

Luke i

The Virgin Birth

John xx,28

Proof of bodily resurrection

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