Gentlemen, show a little respect. I am a Baptist and don't go around beating you up over your beliefs.
And as far as the Bible is concerned, I think there was a thing call the Torah that came from the Jews.
We have enough battles to fight without dividing the community, lets not.
I do not disagree with your sentiment, at all.
However, I am a “counter puncher” on the religion threads.
I only speak up in defense of the Catholic Church, when I see the Church being unfairly attacked.
Also, as far as the Old Testament issue, I did address that on a previous post on this thread.
No Jewish Temple would ever call the words of Moses part of the “Old Testament” or part of the “Bible” -—
The Bible was created by the Church and inspired by God, of course, when the Church decided to combine the accepted Jewish works with the official New Testament works.
The Catholic Church was the editor and publisher of the FIRST Bible.
No Bible that exists today can escape the fact that the Catholic Church made that Bible possible.
Even those Bibles translated from the Orthodox Greek can not do so -— As the Orthodox Greek was translated under and written under the authority of Rome.
“Gentlemen, show a little respect. I am a Baptist and don’t go around beating you up over your beliefs.”
FYI: Your response to - “There would be no Bible with out the Catholic Church.” - is a prime case of moral relatism.