1. The Church recognized the Bible - the NT. This happened BEFORE Rome insisted on the primacy of their bishop and
left the Orthodox Church.
2. God worked through human agency to write and recognize and preserve His Word.
Glory to Him alone.
Dr. Dino...
Catholicism = The Real Thing
Everything else = Sam’s Club Cola......introduced 1639 years later.
one other note...
U.S. and World Catholic membership up. [FACT]
U.S. and World Protestant membership down. [FACT]
This blogosphere naysaying turns more people on to Catholicism than you'll ever know!
Some random, self-important nutcase no one has ever heard of dissing St. Jerome. Never ceases to amaze me that people go out of their way to insult and denigrate fellow Christians. Not very “Christian” of them.
Odd posting. Gratuitous attacks on Catholics and whitewashes out any mention of the Jews
“But the Baptist sect known as the Vaudois, were speaking a new language – Latin.”
The author of the above statement forgot a basic rule of living in the modern world: People who use crack should not post on the internet.
No.
SnakeDoc
If it's true that the Catholic Church can trace itself back to the group that met to decide which books were to be canonical, then it can claim to have validated the books of the Bible.
That is not the same as "giving us" the Bible.
The various lists of received books, though, are many and are from all points of the early patriarchal cities. Does a list from Antioch, for example, get counted as an Antiochan entry?
**Did the Catholic Church Give Us the Bible?**
Short answer — YES!!!
More information will be posted in a bit!
Of course the Catholic church gave us the Bible, at least the New Testament, ahile the Old Testament was given to us by the Jews.
Even if you take the leap of faith and claim it was written by God through man, you still had a council of man choose what passages of what books were to be included in the text.
Hello bogusname (and I’ve got to admit that your name fits perfectly with your bogus theology), I got to looking at some old threads and I couldn’t help but notice that there was an anti-Catholic bigot who used to post anti-Catholic threads a lot like yours and he/she would usually post a bunch of them in a short period of time.
Now the funny thing is that this bigot was banned not long long before you joined. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying it’s you, I’m just curious. Have you ever used another name on FR?
That is seriously one of the (unintentionally) funniest things I have ever read. Thanks for posting this.
Surprise, surprise! Kent Hovind who runs the website that published this laughable garbage also happens to to write COMIC BOOKS for [NAME REDACTED]:
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No, actually, I did, my son!
Did the Catholic Church Give Us the Bible?
No.
The True Church did, yes. Sad that people find attacking the True Church to be fun, especially during Lent. Ask yourself why?
The first two sentences of this article are true...the rest, frankly is historical rubbish—incredibly mixed up and inaccurate.
Constantine for example never made the Church the “state religion” rather he was the first Emperor to fully tolerate and even favor Christianity. Christianity was not made the state Church until AD 381, long after Constantine’s death.
As someone with a Masters degree in Theology, who agrees that the Roman Catholic Church did NOT give us the Bible—I’d advise people please don’t take anything said in the article above at face value—as it is full of historical inaccuracies...
Hi. I appreciate your post denying that the Roman Catholic Church “gave” us the Bible. That is very true, they didn’t give us the bible, God did—before the Roman Church was organized.
However, other than the 1st couple sentences, the article by Joshua Joscelyn is completely full of unproved assertions, historical inaccuracies...and ideas that no serious Church historian (and I’m talking about non-Roman Catholic ones) accepts. I have a Masters degree in theology from a very conservative seminary, and these are things I’ve studied.
For example, there are NO ancient copies of New Testament scriptures in Hebrew, anywhere. The oldest texts we have...and we have some from within 75 years of the NT authorship, are ALL in Greek. ....it’s clear that Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter, Paul, etc. wrote in the universal language of the 1st Century, which was Greek—there is no evidence otherwise. The idea that any of the books of the NT were originally written in Hebrew (or Aramaic)(or Latin) is ONLY a hypothesis...without any evidence to back it up.
It’s clear the Roman Catholic Church did not give us the bible—however the article by Joscelyn—gives no real history to prove that.