VLX Interlude: Is the Bible Historical?
Padre Peregrino
Fr. Dave Nix
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🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Father David Nix. This is a VLX interlude, video Lexu de Vina, and today we're |
| 0:05.3 | going to talk about this question, is the Bible historical? You know, I'm surprised how many |
| 0:10.7 | Catholics know that there are five senses of interpreting the Bible, but what they fail to realize |
| 0:15.5 | is one of those senses is the baseline that must be taken as the status quo for every single sentence of the Bible. |
| 0:24.3 | So it's great that there's a lot of people out there know that there's many different senses of interpreting the Bible, |
| 0:29.8 | but again, what most modern Catholics don't get, and this is very important for the VLX series, |
| 0:35.8 | anyone following that, and really for anybody who's not, |
| 0:38.5 | who wonders if Catholics take the Bible literally, if the Magisterium of the Catholic Church |
| 0:44.5 | teaches that the Bible is historical. As always, I'm not going to give you my opinion. I'm going to |
| 0:51.1 | give you the classic Magisterium, the perennial teachings of the Catholic Church. |
| 0:55.0 | Let's start with what a lot of people seem to know the five senses of interpreting Scripture. |
| 1:01.0 | We're going to look at the new catechism, released by Pope John Paul 2, and it says in paragraph number 116 to 117, |
| 1:09.0 | the five ways of reading the Bible. |
| 1:11.5 | And it says the first is the literal sense, and the catechism says, quote, |
| 1:15.6 | The literal sense is the meaning conveyed by the words of Scripture and discovered by exegesis, |
| 1:21.8 | following the rules of sound interpretation. |
| 1:24.5 | All other senses of sacred scripture are based on the literal. So there you have |
| 1:29.3 | a clue. That's really great that we do have the sense that this is now the baseline. One of the |
| 1:35.6 | things that's a little wonky in there, though, is this isn't discovered by exegesis. The church is |
| 1:40.9 | always taught, this comes from the Orthodox Holy Fathers, the friends of the friends of the apostles. The water is always taught, this comes from the Orthodox Holy Fathers, the Friends of the Friends of the Apostles. |
| 1:47.0 | The water is always coolest and clearest at the source. |
| 1:50.7 | Because exegesis, the problem is, we're going to see this a little bit later. |
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