[Faith Presses On]

That’s the view according to dead religion, which credits man with putting together the Bible. Since the Catholic Church says it goes back to Peter, you would also claim it wrote the New Testament. The church isn’t an institution, though, but the body of Christ made up of believers who have been born again through Christ. I remember reading that the Catholic Church adopted celibacy for priests for monetary reasons and ever since it did it’s been extremely wealthy and spending lavishly on itself. It’s also gone after the ways of the world, which is why it doesn’t take the Bible literally. If Genesis isn’t true, then the genealogies given for Jesus in the New Testament are wrong, and that is only one place where Catholic doctrine isn’t consistent. As the Word of God says, though, Scripture was written by men who were led by the Holy Spirit. And God’s Word also says that wolves would come into the flock. The Catholic Church hasn’t stayed true to God’s Word, and the Catholic Church today is very different from the early Church. You have to wonder if early Christians would recognize it as Christian.

[Salvation]

**Spirit. And God’s Word also says that wolves would come into the flock. The Catholic Church hasn’t stayed true to God’s Word, and the Catholic Church today is very different from the early Church. You have to wonder if early Christians would recognize it as Christian.**

Have you read anything from Justin Martyr? I think the early Christians would recognize Catholics today, for our Mass is nearly the same as it was in the times of the Early Church fathers.

It’s other denominations that need to be worried here.

[Salvation]

[TexasFreeper2009]

The new testament is mostly just a collection of letters written during the first century AD that the Catholic church assembled into a book at the council of Trent in the 16th century.

It's not like God handed the completed work to some guy on a mountain like he did with Moses and the 10 commandments.

I just have always found it interesting that we believers seem to believe that no one in the last 1900 years has written anything God inspired that could be added. And why do we only study these letters assembled by the Catholic church to the virtual exclusion of all else.

I assume from what you wrote that your a protestant (as am I). How come we don't study the writings of Martin Luther or others which formed the basis of all protestant denominations in our sunday school classes? Are there no God inspired protestant writings?

[RobbyS]

So far as we know, Jesus was celibate, and at age thirty he was in early middle age by the standards of the time he began his mission.