Catholic Replies
Editor’s Note: This series on the Bible is from the book Catholicism & Scripture. Please feel free to use the series for high schoolers or adults. We will continue to welcome your questions for the column as well. Special Course On Catholicism And Scripture (Chapter 14) God had been faithful to Israel for more than a thousand years, despite their infidelity and idolatry, as the cycle of sin was repeated over and over again — from sin to punishment to repentance to liberation. But God finally decided to let Israel’s enemies triumph over her, even to send them into exile in Babylon. First went the people in the North in 721 B.C. and then those from the South in 597…Continue Reading