Growing up Catholic and going to a Catholic school during my elementary years, I remember there being an attitude that only the priest was qualified to interpret the Bible, and individual Bible reading was never encouraged.
Some members of my Dad’s family went so far to tell us,” you’ll go crazy if you read the Bible!”
You can go back and read the tone about the Bible from Catholics in this thread and it’s easy to see it’s not one that is positive. And it’s a widespread sentiment that I see time and time again when Catholics speak about the Bible in threads like these. There is a pervasive attitude that the Bible is either a lesser source of information as church tradition or at best, only equal to tradition.

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Posted by Champagne

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Posted on 6/24/21 at 8:26 pm to Revelator

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Growing up Catholic and going to a Catholic school during my elementary years, I remember there being an attitude that only the priest was qualified to interpret the Bible, and individual Bible reading was never encouraged.
Some members of my Dad’s family went so far to tell us,” you’ll go crazy if you read the Bible!”
You can go back and read the tone about the Bible from Catholics in this thread and it’s easy to see it’s not one that is positive. And it’s a widespread sentiment that I see time and time again when Catholics speak about the Bible in threads like these. There is a pervasive attitude that the Bible is either a lesser source of information as church tradition or at best, only equal to tradition.
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Your personal anecdotes are completely unreliable. Your facts are false.

When you are presented with accurate facts and history, you ignore that and repeat the falsehoods over and over.

I suspect that the theology that you embrace is 25 percent Christianity and 75 percent Anti-Roman Catholicism.

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Posted by Foch

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Posted on 6/24/21 at 8:43 pm to Revelator

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Growing up Catholic and going to a Catholic school during my elementary years, I remember there being an attitude that only the priest was qualified to interpret the Bible, and individual Bible reading was never encouraged.

I wish for you that your formation in the faith had been better, and better informed. Along your road to becoming a Southern Baptist you became misinformed about a great majority of Catholic teachings and much of the dogma.

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You can go back and read the tone about the Bible from Catholics in this thread and it’s easy to see it’s not one that is positive.

I haven't seen anyone (Catholic or Protestant) describe the Scriptures as anything other than sacred.

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There is a pervasive attitude that the Bible is either a lesser source of information as church tradition or at best, only equal to tradition.

You are the one who is making the leap from it being an integral part of the deposit of faith to being a "less than equal" component.

You are bringing your bias in by saying it is a binary equation where if the Bible is not the only source of truth, it is then a subordinate source of truth.

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