RE: what are they teaching in seminaries these days?
August 27, 2015 at 5:44 pm
(This post was last modified: August 27, 2015 at 5:49 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 27, 2015 at 3:54 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(August 27, 2015 at 3:12 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: I'll never forget a Feast of the Epiphany (the visit of the Magi) Mass, when the priest started his homily this way: "You KNOW there were no wise men, right? No gifts of frankincense, gold, and myrrh? You know this is an allegory, a way for the gospel writers to say that they saw kingship in Jesus, so Jesus's story should start like king stories of their time. And they saw God in Jesus, so the angels must have been singing in the skies over the stable. There weren't any angels talking to shepherds, either. Don't read the Bible as if it is literally true, or you'll end up rather frustrated."
Do all seminaries teach that the Bible isn't literal, or just some of them?
Brilliant man. Good guy (for a priest). Died a few years ago. I miss him.
It's becoming more and more common to take a less literal approach to the bible, as we continue to gain more understanding of it and of the times it was written. :shy:
Sad to hear of your friend's passing. What about good guy... for a human... was he a good guy for that? Lol. ;)
And sometime before the heat death of the universe, you too might gain the understand of "that was the TIMES during which they made IT up, and a botched job of making up malevolent fiction IT was, and what a shame so many scoundrels were able to gain the position to compel others to fall for it"
