Thank you. It's from a Thomas Edison quote on a bumper sticker that someone I worked with for a long time had on a filing cabinet. I understand that our names don't have to make any sense.
In my own case I'm Protestant, but I like the writings of the early Church fathers. I'm just not crazy about the idea that only the Pope can be inspired by God.
The point of my post is that this thread isn't news to anyone who's followed the Church. The Church has never sworn by the truth of the Bible. But that's the media for ya. ;)
I agree. Catholics don't own the rights to inspiration by God. I always thought many protestant churches are devoted to the study of the Bible. What is the study of Bible history called? I have been trying to think of it for days. Not litergy...
The Bible has been open to so much interpretation. (I can hear my parochial teacher saying, OH!, what a blastphemus thing to say!) One example, the "meek" shall inherit the earth. "Meek" didn't mean the same then as it does now.