wanted put into sacred writings for the sake of our salvation.
Therefore ‘all Scripture is divinely inspired and has its use for
teaching the truth and refuting error, for reformation of manners and
discipline in right living, so that the man of God may be efficient and
equipped for good work of every kind’.”
9
“Guided by the Holy Spirit and in the light of the living Tradition
which it has received, the Church has discerned the writings which
should be regarded as Sacred Scripture in the sense that, ‘having
been written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God
as their author and have been handed on as such to the Church’ (Dei
Verbum, 11) and contain ‘that truth which God wanted put into the
Sacred Writings for the sake of our salvation’ (ibid.).”
10
“The inspired books teach the truth. ‘Since therefore all that the
inspired authors or sacred writers affirm should be regarded as
affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of
Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach that truth which
God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the
Sacred Scriptures’.”
11
Third objection: “But virtually all Catholic schools today teach that
the book of Genesis, for example, is only a myth. Why is this so?”
It is true that many Catholic schools and teachers today teach that Genesis
is not historical, that chapters 1-11 contain only myths, and that the rest of
the book contains numerous errors. This is symptomatic of the widespread
surrender to Modernist exegesis and the adoption of dubious evolutionary
notions to explain the origins of life and of man.
Nevertheless, it is not the role of Catholic schools or teachers to interpret
Scripture. Such a role is properly reserved to the Magisterium:
9
Second Vatican Council, Dei Verbum (Dogmatic Constitution on Divine
Revelation), 1965, # 11.
10
Pontifical Biblical Commission, The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church,
1993, III, B, 1.
11
Catechism of the Catholic Church, # 107.
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