Skip to main content
Christianity

Return to Question

Tweeted twitter.com/StackChristian/status/1413694706786177024
Bumped by Community user
edited tags
Link
DJClayworth
DJClayworth
  • 32.5k
  • 5
  • 64
  • 130
removed the reference to Protestantism and clarified the question a little more
Source Link
Daud
Daud
  • 169
  • 3

What's the official Catholic and Protestant position regarding the literal truth of incidents described in the Old Testament?

Someone recently told me that passages like Samuel 15:3 and Numbers 31:17-18 which talk of God and Moses giving orders for violence, are considered by the Catholic church as exaggerations and hyperbole and not literally true, inserted by human authors whose ideas of God were influenced by the times they lived in.

I want to know if this is really the position of the Catholic Church? And does the Protestant view differ from those with respect to the truth of these verses. Are these verses regarded as literally true or if these can be interpretated as exaggerations or even lies attributed to God and Moses?

What's the official Catholic and Protestant position regarding the literal truth of incidents described in the Old Testament?

Someone recently told me that passages like Samuel 15:3 and Numbers 31:17-18 which talk of God and Moses giving orders for violence, are considered by the Catholic church as exaggerations and hyperbole and not literally true, inserted by human authors whose ideas of God were influenced by the times they lived in.

I want to know if this is really the position of the Catholic Church? And does the Protestant view differ from those with respect to the truth of these verses. Are these verses regarded as literally true?

What's the official Catholic position regarding the literal truth of incidents described in the Old Testament?

Someone recently told me that passages like Samuel 15:3 and Numbers 31:17-18 which talk of God and Moses giving orders for violence, are considered by the Catholic church as exaggerations and hyperbole and not literally true, inserted by human authors whose ideas of God were influenced by the times they lived in.

I want to know if this is really the position of the Catholic Church? Are these verses regarded as literally true or if these can be interpretated as exaggerations or even lies attributed to God and Moses?

Source Link
Daud
Daud
  • 169
  • 3

What's the official Catholic and Protestant position regarding the literal truth of incidents described in the Old Testament?

Someone recently told me that passages like Samuel 15:3 and Numbers 31:17-18 which talk of God and Moses giving orders for violence, are considered by the Catholic church as exaggerations and hyperbole and not literally true, inserted by human authors whose ideas of God were influenced by the times they lived in.

I want to know if this is really the position of the Catholic Church? And does the Protestant view differ from those with respect to the truth of these verses. Are these verses regarded as literally true?