Episode 155- From Protestant to Catholic: The Biblical Themes That Changed Everything | Dr. Jeff Morrow · Catholic Feedback · Radar

Catholicism Woven Through Scripture8:02 – 12:13

Keith NesterHost

8:02

I think that's something that when I talk to Bible scholars like yourself, I'm always looking for the greater themes of...

Keith NesterHost

8:11

Catholicism in the scripture in totality.

Keith NesterHost

8:18

Is there a certain thread that you see woven through the Old Testament into the New Testament that specifically points to Catholicism? Yeah, there are several.

Keith NesterHost

8:27

I mean, the two

Jeff MorrowGuest

8:28

big ones to me are the movement towards sacraments, right, from sacrifices of the old to the sacraments of the new.

Jeff MorrowGuest

8:36

And then the second is the structure of the church.

Jeff MorrowGuest

8:39

That, you know, we could talk about, naturally, we are political, but I mean, the reality is we have to have authority structures.

Jeff MorrowGuest

8:45

Family's got authority.

Jeff MorrowGuest

8:46

The society has authority.

Jeff MorrowGuest

8:47

You have to have a structure to be able to, you know, preach the Word of God with authority.

Jeff MorrowGuest

8:53

And we have that in the Old Testament.

Jeff MorrowGuest

8:55

So, we have this community that God gathers together, for example, after the Exodus event.

Jeff MorrowGuest

9:01

And it has a structure.

Jeff MorrowGuest

9:02

And then you have the kingdom, this kind of transformed structure with a king and a high priest, et cetera.

Jeff MorrowGuest

9:07

And as we walk through this, I mean, it gets really interesting where you have the king.

Jeff MorrowGuest

9:12

And we see, especially in 1 Kings, we see that it has 12 kings.

Jeff MorrowGuest

9:17

right royal officers that are in you know feeding the the royal household and they're 12 represented the 12 tribes of israel and they have one prime minister figure and we see jesus doing something similar as a son of david he has he is the king and yet he appoints 12 royal officers the apostles and one among them becomes his prime minister representative Peter.

Jeff MorrowGuest

9:39

And we see that in several passages in the New Testament, especially in the Gospels, but also throughout the book of Acts.

Jeff MorrowGuest

9:45

And so that structure is there.

Jeff MorrowGuest

9:46

And then, of course, the sacrifices, which are important in the old pointing forward to the new.

Jeff MorrowGuest

9:53

So when I often read the old and new in light of each other, what I see is Jesus is coming and he is transforming the Old Testament Jewish Israelite rituals into the new covenant sacraments.

Jeff MorrowGuest

10:07

The New

Keith NesterHost

10:08

Covenant.

Keith NesterHost

10:10

When I became Catholic, that was something that really hit me, was to see the fulfillment of the Old Testament in that, even from a liturgical sense, when you look at that.

Keith NesterHost

10:20

And as a Bible scholar, I'm always interested to hear how that looks to you as a Catholic.