Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: RobbyS
The Spirit always speaks through a human agent. Someone wrote these books. Someone else decided they were inspired. The Bible is a product of the Holy Tradition, which is the Holy Spirit working through the church at large. The role of the papacy in this has been a minor one, that of a custodian.

Even if I accept your premise, the question is whether the Word was assembled and preserved BY her, or IN SPITE OF her.

I might encourage you to look at your system in comparison to Temple Judaism and ponder this quote:

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - Jorge Santayana

228 posted on 09/06/2013 6:39:39 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 217 | View Replies ]


To: roamer_1
When you pick your next bible, remember that the first formatting of the Scriptures in this style was the Paris Bible of the 13th Century. It was handwritten but produced in the thousands. Copies can still be seen That Bible was the a version of the Vulgate and was made small enough to fit in the pocket of itinerate friars as they moved from town to town and which provided them texts from which to preach. In the 15th century, preachers like John Capistrano preached to huge crowds as JohnWesley was to do in England in the 18th Century. Protestants have protested that the Bible was kept from the people by not being produced in the vernacular, but Latin was the language of the literate class all over Europe. About 10% of the people could read/understand Latin. Where the Romance languages were spoken, as Italian, a native of Naples was as likely to understand Latin as he was to understand the dialect of Milan. For more than 1000 years, Latin was the linguafranca of Europe,

One of Luther’s great gifts to Germany was his Bible, which was not the first translation into German, but was so brilliant and so inventive that it would become the basis for what is today Standard German. The spread of his creed, led to the spread of his version. of German. Still, it has only been within the last hundred years that German dialects have become so eroded that an ordinary Austrian could easily understand an ordinary Brandenberger. In any case, Latin remained the language of the educated until the 18th Century when it was replaced by French.

230 posted on 09/06/2013 9:36:05 PM PDT by RobbyS (quotes)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 228 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson