We have covered this subject matter
from different angles in three prior documents (1)(2)(3) but, this time, we
have the "confession" of Henry Wansbrough - the General
Editor of the New Jerusalem Bible, dated on November 1984 and presented
as the Foreword of the just then released New Jerusalem Bible - to
confirm it all.
Summing up his "confession": The Holy Texts are as good as, and dependent on, the latest
archeological, social, and linguistic discoveries and their scientific
interpretation.
The prior three documents that we
have issued on the Holy Texts are:
Biblical
Literalism or Symbolism? It Just Depends on the Circumstances - Part I (1) and II (2)
The purpose of this two-part sequence of documents is to
dismount another technique that is often
used
to disfigure people's faith - whichever the faith of their choice may
be.
We have touched on one facet of this
danger in earlier documents;
now we will identify
the other, and far more dangerous, facet: the technique used by those
who, quoting the Holy Scriptures: (a) justify just about any criminal
act "in the Name of God"; and (b) "can show" that there are key
contradictions in them thus "proving" the inherent "unreliability" of
Scriptures.
Why is this so important? Unfortunately
men have been erroneously
taught
to place their faith in either an institution or in a book instead
of
placing their faith and
entire trust in God.
The institution and book are the instruments to
develop, and help place and strengthen our faith in God; they are not to become the
object of our faith. When the faith is not based on God, all
the unbelievers have to do is to
discredit the "institution" and prove the "book"
wrong .
Once that is done, the little faith man has will simply vanish away.
and
The Official
Version of the Bible Accepted by the Roman Catholic Church Continues to
be Altered (3)
The
purpose of this brief document is to show how the original latin text
of the Douay-Rheims
Bible - the Official
Version of the Bible Accepted by
the Roman Catholic Church - continues
to be changed.
