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Read the Old Testament in the Light of Jesus

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What do you do when an Old Testament passage upsets you?

Fr. Tim has reached the fourth and final rule in his series on how to read the Old Testament as a Catholic, and he

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Know the World the Bible Was Written In

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Have you ever read the Old Testament and felt like you had stepped into a completely foreign world?

Fr. Tim continues his Old Testament series with Rule 3, which is all

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Ask What Kind of Book You’re Reading

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Would you read the Psalms as a science textbook? Fr. Tim says it would be “very weird,” and that is the heart of Rule 2.

Last week’s Rule 1 was that if something is

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Just Because It’s in the Bible Doesn’t Mean God Approves

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Angels of death, she-bears, and battles on nearly every page. What are Christians supposed to do with the Old Testament?

“The Old Testament is crazy,” Fr. Tim admits

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Is Genesis Just Another Ancient Creation Story?

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Is the book of Genesis really all that different from the other creation stories of the ancient world, or is it simply one ancient account among many?

In this episode

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Why Did God Put the Tree in the Garden of Eden?

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Why would God put a tree in the garden that Adam and Eve weren’t allowed to eat from? Wasn’t that just setting a trap?

In this episode of Ask a Priest, the

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Is Genesis True?

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Does the Book of Genesis contradict science? Do Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 tell competing stories? And if the universe is billions of years old, does that mean the Bible

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Why Go to Mass If Catholics Are Hypocrites?

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Why should you go to Mass if the Catholics you know seem hypocritical? What if they go to church every week but live in ways that contradict what they believe?

In this

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Do We Just Forgive and Forget?

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As a Christian, do you have to reconcile with someone who hurt you? Does forgiveness mean restoring the relationship, trusting that person again, or simply “forgiving

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Forgetting to Confess

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What happens if you forget to confess a sin? Does that make your confession invalid, or mean you have another sin on your conscience?

In this episode of Ask a Priest,

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