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Kathleen's avatar

Yes, indeed!!!

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Kaleb Hammond's avatar

Thanks, Kathleen! God bless!

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Kenneth kintz's avatar

Thank you! For pointing out an important

Essential crucial principle for reading the

Sacred Scriptures. Could you point out the church document where this principle is stated with a complete explanation of why this is important. Dei Verbum?

This gets to the root of why there are so many denominations

And why so many little Bible study groups go down rabbit holes and are almost useless or even harmful to the participants

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Kaleb Hammond's avatar

Thank you for your question, and sorry for the delayed response. As you said, Dei Verbum does mention this principle (in #12). The Catechism also includes it and other principles to guide Catholics in biblical exegesis (#109-114).

These are the best official document sources I can find, though there may be more, and certainly some non-magisterial sources discuss it, such as this article which has a subsection on it and many other important principles for Catholic biblical exegesis:

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/figuring-out-the-bible

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Rufino Ty's avatar

Well said!

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Kaleb Hammond's avatar

Thanks, Rufino! God bless!

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