text: Oh dear, Eric. You have flip flopped on me again. If you read back, you will find that I have always carefully qualified my use of the notion that the Gospels are history "in our modern sense of that term." I have carefully given you a single example of non-historicity, and carefully asserted that the overwhelming majority of Catholic Biblical scholars accept the theory the underlies this example. 
  
  Whatever CCC 124-127 says about scripture, if it were not in compliance with the example I have given you, then the CDF under B16 and JP2 would have censured the vast majority of Catholic Biblical scholars. That didn't happen, ergo you would appear to be the only one who sees a conflict. I am very sorry, Eric, but it does seem to me that you acknowledged lack of interaction with intellectualism has built what I consider very simple distinctions into something of a stumbling block for yourself. 
  
  No "fashion" as you use it here does not mean genre; the concept continues to allude you.