Posted on 08/10/2007 9:39:37 PM PDT by Salvation
I’ll defer to Iscool on that question.
Or did they get that part wrong, too? Oh, dear!
Well, yes...Your church is wrong...And you are wrong for quoting your church...
Your church did compile a bible...In fact, most every bible out there in the English language is a Catholic bible...
However, the Bible I know to be the word of God is not a Catholic Bible...It is the KJV and is not based on your Catholic bibles...
So no, your church did not create nor give me my Bible...
You making stuff up again or are you quoting someone else??? You certainly aren't quoting anything I said...
Does your statement have anything to do with the topic at hand???
Except that I'm not Roman Catholic, but the New Testament books of the Bible that you use was compiled by the Ecumenical Councils that were conducted and recognized by the Catholic Church.
By the way, are you asserting that the KJV did not translate from any Latin Bibles but only the Greek ones?
If so, what I said about the Ecumenical Councils still applies.
Ok, so you think they got all of the books of the Bible correct, at least!
Absolutely!
Perhaps you should read the referenced article again.
It is the KJV and is not based on your Catholic bibles...
...I see...the KJV was based on something totally different and just happened to come up with the same NT books as our Catholic Bibles...just happenstance, I guess...coincidence is an amazing thing, isn’t it...
Me? I’m just passing along the question.
“How can a church claim to be a “Biblical church” if it doesn’t believe in the Trinity?”
By the way, are you asserting that the KJV did not translate from any Latin Bibles but only the Greek ones?...
...he can assert no such thing...of course the KJV was translated using primarily Greek and Hebrew texts, but the Vulgate was used as a secondary source to resolve certain translation difficulties in the Textus Receptus...
That's how I understood my history of the KJV as well so the statement that no "Catholic Bible" was used is simply incorrect.
Well I don't believe it can...But remember, your church didn't have the Trinity figured out til about 350 A.D...
Great comment. Reminds me of what one of my friends said, "Sitting in a church doesn't make a person a Christian any more than sitting in a garage makes him a car." We have to accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior first. Good works follow, not as a means to salvation (since all fall way short of the Glory of God) but as a loving expression of that salvation...and for the love of Him who gave us Himself.
The Trinity is not a process. If you disbelieve the Trinity, then you do not understand the Christian understanding of Jesus. If you do not understand this, then you cannot accept Him as your Saviour because you cannot know what it mean. If you do not accept Him as your Saviour, then you don’t get into Heaven.
There is no Biblical support for the concept that when two or three are gathered, then that is the authorization to create a new Church. And if one studies alone, does that preclude Jesus being there?
The Bible itself precludes private interpretation, at least mine does. Does yours/
What are you talking about, a new church...
When two or more are gathered together, it IS the church...The church IS saved sinners wherever you find them...
You're confusing religion with church...
The 'church', the body of Christ, attend and belong to various 'religious' organizations such as the Baptist, the Reformed churches and even the Catholic churches...
The Bible itself precludes private interpretation, at least mine does. Does yours
Yes it does...And it even applies to that religion you belong to...
HaHa...If that was true, nary a Catholic went to heaven for the 1st three hundered hears of YOUR religious history since Your religion hadn't 'discovered' the Trinity til then...
But talk about private interpretation, where in the world did you come up with this philosophy??? You didn't get it from the scripture...
Let me guess...Your religion taught you that...
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