AS the Royal Commission hearings into events at the Maitland-Newcastle
Diocese of the Catholic Church drew to a close, I found myself wondering
about the sanctity of priests, and what a devout, doctrinal Catholic
would think about the sins of their priests, from a theological point of
view.
Despite the march of science, some practising Christians still adhere to a literalist reading of the Bible, meaning that they take both the Old and New Testaments as the literal word of the one God. They believe in Heaven and in Hell, and accept that God created the world in seven days, shortly before he put Adam in Eden and fashioned Eve from one of his ribs.
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/4184626/the-confessional-and-the-state-of-dis-grace/
Despite the march of science, some practising Christians still adhere to a literalist reading of the Bible, meaning that they take both the Old and New Testaments as the literal word of the one God. They believe in Heaven and in Hell, and accept that God created the world in seven days, shortly before he put Adam in Eden and fashioned Eve from one of his ribs.
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/4184626/the-confessional-and-the-state-of-dis-grace/