Wednesday, May 18, 2011

The Catechism on Sacred Scripture - Sections 124 & 125

The New Testament
 
124 "The Word of God, which is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, is set forth and displays its power in a most wonderful way in the writings of the New Testament"96 which hand on the ultimate truth of God's Revelation. Their central object is Jesus Christ, God's incarnate Son: his acts, teachings, Passion and glorification, and his Church's beginnings under the Spirit's guidance.97
 
125 The Gospels are the heart of all the Scriptures "because they are our principal source for the life and teaching of the Incarnate Word, our Savior".98

96 DV 17; cf. Rom 1:16.
97 Cf. DV 20.
98 DV 18.


Source: Catechism of the Catholic Church 

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