Fuller Sense
But the Bible has God, a divine author, besides the
human
author. The Church teaches that there exists a
more-than-
literal meaning for understanding the Bible: a fuller sense.
The fuller sense is the deeper meaning intended by
God as
divine author. The fuller sense of Scripture, since
it is the
meaning intended by God, may not have been clearly
known
and intended by the human author.
Criteria
to establish the fuller sense:
Because the Catholic Church holds that there are two
revealing authorities of Divine Revelation, the
Bible and
the Holy Spirit, the fuller sense of the Bible can
be found
in the authoritative interpretation of those
revealing
authorities.