re: #176 Walter L. Newton

Flaws in a book supposedly inspired or authored by G-d negates it’s value.

Wrong.

Inspiration is different from authorship. This is where Christianity (the non-insane parts) differs from Islam.

Bibliolatry is emphatically not part of Catholic doctrine, and after some initial resistance, the Catholic contribution to biblical textual criticism has been and continues to be a major one.

The problems of genre, transmission, interpretation and translation are all solidly part of the Catholic approach to the Bible, which is not seen as divinely authored, but inspired. Inspiration, of course, occurs with varying degrees of potency and success. No Catholic claims, for example, that every pithy little two-liner in “Proverbs” is binding as a guide to daily life.