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VI.C

Is the Bible always literally true?

Challenges: Is the Bible always literally true?

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VI.C.1 It depends on what one means by "literally." The Church does not always propose a literalist or fundamentalist approach to Scripture but rather a contextualist approach. The Church teaches that all of Scripture is true on matters pertaining to religious and salvific teaching because it is inspired by God for that purpose (CCC, nos. 107, 116).

VI.C.2 The Bible has a definite historic basis for events recounted in both the Old and the New Testaments; the Church particularly upholds the historicity of the Gospels (CCC, no. 126). However, the Church does not claim that the Bible's purpose is to present scientific or historical facts (CCC, no. 107).

VI.C.3 The Church gives guidelines for interpretation of Sacred Scripture (see earlier in outline).

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