SCRIPTURE

During the year 2005 a series of five talks on the Old Testament and five talks on the New Testament were presented at the Adult Education Program of St. Joseph parish in Columbia SC. Subsequently they were posted on the website www.rciaresources.com. They may be too detailed for inclusion in the book which is the subject matter for this website, but they are repeated here since they might be of interest to some of the present viewers. The follow up talks presented at St. Joseph’s on the early writings of the Christian Church are provided on the Tradition page of this website.

Also listed on the sidebar is a Chapter on Editing Scripture which gives some insight into the problems involved in making sure that the presently available versions of the texts are accurate reproductions of the original versions. A second Chapter listed here as Misquoting Jesus critically examines the recent (2005) book by that name. This former best seller gives a false impression of the validity of what we read in the New Testament. Our chapter emphasizes the duty of scripture scholars to be forthright in what they tell us about the Word of God!