HAPPY 4TH of JULY TOMORROW
There will be no post tomorrow so Friday’s post is being
moved to today. We move into a new
section of Dei Verbum entitled, “The Old Testament” in paragraph 14.
There has been several skirmishes over the past few decades
about the politically correct way to refer to Scared Scripture before the
advent of Christ. “Old Testament” was
seen as divisive and dismissive as in, “What do you do with old
newspapers? Throw them out.” So also there was introduced the term “common era”
and “before the common era” or CE and BCE. Then there were the titles “Hebrew Scriptures”
and “Christian Scriptures.” All of them
have their problems and not being one who likes to exchange problems simply to
get a different set of problems, I stick with Old and New.
That being said, one of the problems with both “Old” and “Hebrew”
is that they can be misleading. To the
uniformed they can make the first part of Sacred Scripture seem irrelevant to
Christians, which is, in fact, a heresy.
They are extremely important to the Christian Church. It is our heritage and through it we
understand the New Testament better.

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