GRGR: Gospels & stuff

damon Pythias damon8pythias at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 1 18:01:38 CST 2000



--- David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >From: Peter Petto <
> >
> >rj wrote in response to David Morris:
> >
> >> > > Beyond all that, there are many who would
> call all
> >> > > Biblical text a form of "dictation,"  from
> God's mouth
> >> > > to the scribe's pen.
> >>
> >>  Even the Vatican is bending on this one I think.
> >
> >What is the Vatican saying now? What did they used
> to say?
> >
> 
> The Vatcan has never placed too much authority in
> Bliblial text.  Church 
> hierarchy, starting with the Pope, is far more
> important, followed by 
> tradition.  The Bible's weight is below these, thus
> the Vatican never really 
> had to bend on this one.
> 
> Southern Babtists on the other hand...
> 
> DM
>
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You say:
"The Vatcan has never placed too much authority in
> Bliblial text."

Can you tell us more on this subject? This sounds very
strange to me. 

Damon 

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