Category Archives: Scripture

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Christianity, Islam, and History

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When one looks at the two largest religions in the world, we see that one is historical and one is not. What do I mean by that? Both can easily be traced from their origins in history but what I refer to is the scripture.

The Bible is a historical document. It starts with the Creation, goes through early civilization, the history of Abraham and the descendants of his Covenant. The Life of Moses is covered in detail as the Israelites leave Egypt and go into the Promised Land. After the conquest of the Holy Land, the Kingdom of Israel is set up and the Temple is built. More Prophets come until the time of Christ.  One cannot deny that it is a historical book.

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Dating The Gospels – Refuting The Liberals

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Saint Jerome - Patron Saint of Biblical Studies

Saint Jerome – Patron Saint of Biblical Studies

Liberal Biblical scholarship as I have mentioned before has been very damaging to the faith of many in the Church. The average churchgoer has not been directly exposed to this, but indirectly. A seminarian will learn these liberal interpretations of the Bible and then this will come through when he is a priest and is preaching to the congregation. The congregation will have no clue and could likely swallow this poison whole.

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Scripture Study – No Liberals Allowed!

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Scripture is extremely important in the life of every serious Catholic. Though the Church has always condemned private interpretation of scripture, it strongly encourages the reading of it.

Many in the Church have a warped view of scripture. While professing the Catholic faith, they will claim that the scriptures are full of contradictions, errors, forgeries and other problems. This is contradicted by the entire history of the Church. In Providentissimus Deus, Pope Leo XIII clearly states: “But it is absolutely wrong and forbidden, either to narrow inspiration to certain parts only of Holy Scripture, or to admit that the sacred writer has erred.”

In the modern era, many people sadly believe this. They have been led astray by liberal scholars such as Fr. Raymond Brown, Fr. Joseph Fitzmyer and others. It is very important for every Catholic to reject these men and their heretical scholarship.

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Full of Grace?

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The Holy Theotokos

The Holy Theotokos

Was Mary full of grace? Luke 1:28 is the key to solving that mystery. In fact, this verse gives us some evidence for the Immaculate Conception for the Blessed Virgin Mary. I should point out that more evidence than this would be needed to prove the doctrine in its entirety but this portion of scripture certainly helps. The verse reads:

“And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.”

The verse is very clear. The Blessed Virgin is full of grace. Regardless of this evidence, innovators deny that this verse says precisely what is does. They point out that the Douay Rheims translation is heavily based off of St. Jerome’s Latin Vulgate, which erred in translating this passage from the original Greek.