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What a new TV show gets wrong well-nigh ‘Living Biblically’ HomeNEWS LocalNationalInternationalObituaries FEATURES NW StoriesLatest IssuePast Issues SPIRITUALITY Ask Father/BishopCatholic VoicesDaily ReadingsSaints of the Month LIVING Food & HomeMarriage & ParentingMoney & StewardshipSports VOICES ArchbishopBishopCommentaryBlog ESPAÑOL Del ArzobispoDel ObispoNoticias/OpiniónPreguntasSantos del Mes CULTURE BooksCalendarCrosswordMovies & TV MULTIMEDIA VideosAudioPhotos Classifieds HomeNEWS— Local— National— International— ObituariesFEATURES— NW Stories— Latest Issue— Past IssuesSPIRITUALITY— Ask Father/Bishop— Catholic Voices— Daily Readings— Saints of the MonthLIVING— Food & Home— Marriage & Parenting— Money & Stewardship— SportsVOICES— Archbishop— Bishop— Commentary— BlogESPAÑOL— Del Arzobispo— Del Obispo— Noticias/Opinión— Preguntas— Santos del MesCULTURE— Books— Calendar— Crossword— Movies & TVMULTIMEDIA— Videos— Audio— PhotosClassifieds Home CULTURE Movies & TV What a new TV show gets wrong well-nigh ‘Living Biblically’ What a new TV show gets wrong well-nigh ‘Living Biblically’ March 15, 2018 Written by Mary Rezac, CNA/EWTN News Published in Movies & TV Photo: CBS These biblical commandments probably sound familiar: Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not commit adultery. These might not: Do not shave your villus with a razor. Do not wear garments of mixed fibers. Stone adulterers. In a new CBS TV show, "Living Biblically," main weft Chip Curry, a New York mucosa critic and soon-to-be father, sets out to modernize his moral life by pursuit every law in the Bible — all 613 of them — as literally as he possibly can, with the help of his “God squad,” which includes a rabbi and a Catholic priest. The premise of the show is based on the 2007 New York Times best-seller "A Year of Living Biblically," in which tragedian A.J. Jacobs describes his real-life journey of taking the Bible as literally as possible for a year. While the results in the show and the typesetting are largely comical and portrayed in good humor (at one point a pebble is chucked at a unchaste spouse), pursuit every law overly given by God to the letter is nearly impossible, and not what Catholics are tabbed to do, biblical scholar Andre Villeneuve told CNA. “Good luck if you really want to try to live the Old Testament completely literally,” said Villeneuve, who has a doctorate in biblical studies and teaches at St. John Vianney Seminary in Denver, Colorado. “It would midpoint you would have to stone your son if he’s rebellious and doesn’t listen to you. You would have to stone adulterers. You would have to trammels every time you tideway a woman that she’s not on her period considering you’re not unliable to touch her,” he said, “a lot of these things that have to do with purity which are really frankly worrisome and would be really problematic, if not impossible, to observe.” The problem with such literal fundamentalism, he said, is that it doesn’t read and interpret the Bible in light of salvation history and in light of the intent of the laws given by God. “The 613 commandments in the Old Testament, in the Hebrew Bible, they were given to Jews to uncork with, so it’s ridiculous for anyone, whether a Catholic or Christian, to say they’re going to live by all of these commandments, considering they were never given to Gentiles,” he said. Some of these commandments still stand, however — most notably, the Ten Commandments. When Christ came and established a new covenant, the apostles decided which laws were still meant to be followed by Christians, and which laws pertained only to Jews, Villeneuve said. “What [the apostles] did is … they saw the law as divided into three categories — the moral laws, the formalism laws and the judicial laws,” he said. “So what has been considered to be universal and perennial and never to be reverted are the moral laws, which are the Ten Commandments and their interpretation.” The formalism laws related to Jewish worship, or the judicial laws related to matters such as what kind of bounty you can expect if your neighbor’s unprepossessing comes onto your property, are not tightness for Christians. Catholics can distinguish what laws of the Bible to follow and what it ways to follow them by reading the question and pursuit the teachings and traditions of the church, Villeneuve noted. “The easy wordplay … is that today we have theQuestionof the Catholic Church, and the third part is tabbed ‘Life in Christ,’ or the moral law. That’s where you can see the Catholic interpretation of the Ten Commandments in light of Jesus’ teaching, and the apostles and the teachings of the church,” he said. “It’s substantially extracting what is universal well-nigh the commandments without taking up all the specific commandments that were given to Jews in their times and culture.”Planethe Jews do not follow and interpret all of the 613 commandments in the Hebrew Bible exactly literally, Villeneuve noted. As an example, he pointed out that the law “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” may seem unforgiving at squatter value, but it was never interpreted literally, plane by the Jewish people. “It doesn’t midpoint literally gouging out an eye, it ways what is an eye worth as far as livelihood, quality of life … and therefore your neighbor should recoup you by so much, by paying you back,” he said. “It’s read and interpreted in a way that’s not literal.” “The marrow line is that the fundamentalist reading of Scripture doesn’t work; plane the Jews don’t live that way,” Villeneuve added. “We don’t read scripture in a vacuum, we don’t believe in ‘sola scriptura’ (the Protestant doctrine of ‘Scripture alone’), but it’s unchangingly read in light of Christian tradition and the teachings of the denomination and the magisterium.” Tagged under TV Bible Related items Jesús nos muestra el camino Jesus shows us the way ¿Cómo puedo comenzar a leer la Biblia? How can I start reading the Bible? 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