What Catholics Forget About Sacred Scripture (Ralph Martin)

[@doriscimino6247]

Im a previous Baptist that God led o the Catholic Church 25 years ago. I love what you have said. God is so present to us in His Word. ❤️✝️

[@kathleendahl2680]

Thanks for the reminder. Much needed. 😊

[@josephland8876]

It's refreshing and encouraging to finally hear a Roman Catholic speak with conviction about the authority of Scripture and that it comes from God. I hope this message spreads through the Roman Catholic church like a wildfire. Every word of Scripture is breathed out from the mouth of God, let it be a lamp to our feet. 2 Timothy 3:16-17: "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work" Psalm 119:105 “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path”

[@nibs1989]

Romans 10:17 - Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

[@graw439]

Beautiful! Thank you for this wonderful message. More people definitely need to hear this today.

[@gracacarvalho424]

Thank you Lord for this wonderful channel ❤️

[@NomosCharis]

Wonderful comments. Refreshing. Favorited! ✅

[@DavidHolzmer]

Thank you so much! Love this!

[@Obedience33]

Amen

[@TheSageSpartan]

As a convert thank you! Blew my mind how much Catholics seem to treat Bible like just another book

[@stevenkushnerick2084]

That’s so true 🔥 Great take

[@johncopper5128]

Thank you.

[@kurtgundy]

Yes. Amen. The Father and the Son and the Spirit love you so much, you're invited to pray directly to the Father in the Name of the Son without any other mediators. Amen.

[@jgr7487]

St Augustin, St Thomas & the other holy fathers of the Church weren't just philosophers, they were Bible commentators. They explained the secrets of God's Word to the people of their times.

[@kevinkelly2162]

Yet any decent Bible scholar will point out to you that some bits were added later, some of Pauls letters were not written by Paul and christians cannot agree as to what books should be in it and which should not.

[@nickjohnson1424]

No that’s false and provide sources to prove me wrong.

[@kevinkelly2162]

@@nickjohnson1424 If your question is adressed to me I refer you to any of the versions of theBible.

[@jgr7487]

@@kevinkelly2162 So what? My point is that the great theologians of the Church weren't just philosophers. Catholics tend to study everything around the Bible and forget the Scriptures.

[@jgr7487]

@@nickjohnson1424 The part about bits isn't false. Go to the end of the Gospel according to St Mark and you'll see its end in square brackets. If you read a good translation of the Bible, you'll find many parts [in between brackets], signaling that that part wasn't found in most older & authentic copies. They don't go against the meaning nor the themes of the original text that surrounds them, but they may not be Word of God.

[@GodLovesAll-j8j]

The scriptures are important to us. St. Jerome said, “Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.” St. John Chrysostom said: “To become adult Christians you must learn familiarity with the Scriptures.” And Pope John Paul II said: “By giving the Bible to men and women you are giving Christ himself.”

[@timrichardson4018]

I heard it said that the scriptures are positively infallible where the magisterium is negatively infallible, meaning that the scriptures say positively what God intended them to say. Ergo, God is their primary author. The magisterium is infallible in the sense that God will prevent it from teaching falsehood, but does not necessarily inspire it's chosen words. Therefore, it won't be wrong in it's official teachings, but may be incomplete or not worded the best way, etc.

[@francismcglynn4169]

“I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” (Genesis 8:21-22.) God knows us and yet is willing to engage with us until the time when all creation will be judged and renewed. Yet, we must know God through what he does for us, with us and through us. this promise of God is after the sacrifice offered by Noah when the flood had ended and God then promised to bless Noah and His sons if they would be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. Being fruitful means imitating God by pouring ourselves out for the good of others.

[@DainisStikuts]

Yeah! Folow the Scripture: 1 Tim 3, 2-3 a bishop must be above reproach, married only once (gk. the husband of one wife), temperate, sensible, respectable, hospitable, an apt teacher, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and not a lover of money.

[@TheDriveIn.]

All Christians need to remember this. It's not a denominational issue. The entire church is at risk because of "deconstruction". So that even christian colleges and institutions now treat the Bible as if it's just our opinion. But God has put it on my heart for a long time to remind everyone that we need to treat the Bible not just like it's our opinion, we need to go into the world, treating it as the whole truth and the only truth! Because if we as Christians aren't calling it the truth, then who will?

[@ServusDei74]

Unification. There is no “denomination” but the One Holy Apostolic Church. Jesus said it best, “And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” How strong would a UNITED, GLOBAL Catholic Church be against the evil that comes against it? We need unity, and reconciliation!!!

[@cyntogia]

John 1 tells us that Christ is the WORD. Scripture are inspired writings about God's relationship with mankind.

[@FlowerxLady]

I need more apologetics! Help me answer??? Holy Spirit help me answer the questions 🙏😊✝️

[@ChristeEleison7]

I think the Catechism is important to read as well

[@BeholdAndLo-f4v]

Yes, so the church can explain away the scriptures!

[@ChristeEleison7]

@ not explain away, only explain

[@sekhem313]

pls clarify: Lots of bickering @ what is being stated by the P about other religions. The wording is often identical to what was stated & public events by JP II - who is still adored in history. what's the difference?

[@ServusDei74]

Kissing the Q’uran is indicative of the Vicar of Christ?

[@napoleonfeanor]

Yes but the question about interpretation is important. If you go complete literalist, we get nonsense like Young Earth Creationism instead of (theistic) evolution. I just use it as example that things aren't all clear. Denying evolution just means people are ignorant about creation and doesn't influence our Salvation through Christ. My main point is that just reading the Bible without guidance through the Church can easily lead to misunderstandings that lead to the Protestant landscape of the USA, an endless fragmentation. The guest probably wouldn't reject this but in the clip, it may appear that way.

[@slanz1]

Oh wow. It's almost like Jesus knew the mind of man and established a Church with a head to help to form the understanding of the faithful, that as the doctrines are understood and practiced, they could live on as the repository of information and knowledge of Him for eternity. Or, maybe the Protestants have it right, just go out on your own, you should be fine.

[@DekemaStokes]

Sounds like SOLA SCRIPTURAL to me 😂

[@mottledbrain]

SOLA SCRIPTURA is "scripture ALONE". That is NOT a teaching of Christ's Church. We always need both Scripture AND Tradition!

[@wonderingpilgrim]

Catholics believe in Prima Scriptura.

[@nickjohnson1424]

So you take sola scripture as having to read the Bible lol.

[@mattb4249]

@mottledbrain Sola scriptura is holding the inspired scripture as the only infallible source from the Lord. If a tradition is not found in the inspired scripture it is considered a creation of man, not the Lord. As a Roman Church goer, you have to reject this because you must absolutely believe a man or group of men have infallibly determined that they can make infallible declarations that must be believed regardless of what the Word says.

[@Hafstrom1845]

@@mattb4249, I thought the Roman Catholic point of view is that tradition can never contradict scripture.