” “"The interpretation of the Bible can actually become an instrument of the Antichrist". It is not just the "Tale of the Antichrist" by Vladimir Solovev that says that, but "implicitly the tale of temptations itself", as well as the fact "the worst books, the destroyers of the figure of Jesus, the demolishers of faith, have been woven with the alleged results of the exegesis". In his new book, the Pope quotes the second temptation of Jesus and the "trap" of the devil that "turns out to know the Scriptures". "The theological dispute between Jesus and the devil recalls Benedict XVI is a dispute which concerns every age and the subject of which is the correct interpretation of the Bible, in which the fundamental hermeneutic question is the question about the image of God". "After the bread, one has to serve something sensational", this is therefore the content of the second temptation, but "the presumption that wants to make God an object and impose on Him our test laboratory conditions", warns the Pope, "cannot find God", because it is founded on the assumption of rising "above Him" and recognising "as real only what can be experienced, what has been put in our hands. Those who think this make God of themselves and in so doing debase not only God, but the world and themselves".” “
