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Originally Posted by Patty55
As a recovered Cafeteria Catholic I like to keep my views to myself and think the world (and this board)would be a better place if more people did the same.
I do have a real question though, not being snarky but do you all actually quote these bible passages from memory or do you look them up each time? If it's from memory, color me impressed. (I thought I was doing great remembering SOHCAHTOA.)
Isn't there a religious forum on this board?
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Raised a German Lutheran and we didn't study the bible so much as we were told in Saturday Catechism class about what the books were about and were expected to memorize the books
names in order, old and new testament, as a test before Confirmation. I can get through first and second Samuel and go blank nowadays. We were taught it as a kind of history and we knew what the main characters and the lesser characters did and were taught that the new testament kind of had more weight than the old. Other Protestant faiths study the Bible in a different way memorizing verses and literally applying them.
I was a Catholic convert at age 18 and really was surprised to find back then that the Catholic Church didn't study the Bible, as much as many Protestants I knew did, and Catholics are not taught to interpret the bible literally which agreed what I was taught as a child in Sunday School and in Catechism Class.
I get more Jeopardy questions on the Bible right than my "cradle Catholic" husband. But I am far from a scholar. To me it takes the wisdom of Solomon to figure it out.