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To: SpirituTuo; Elsie
Did someone have to teach what the verses of the Bible mean? Of course. No one picks up the Bible and understands it perfectly, and independently. We are all taught interpretation as well as explication and explanation.

No one denies you have preaching/teaching. You are blessed if you have someone versed in the original languages to share those insights. Those don't add to the text, they clarify the text.

But no one, well, except catholics and other cults, are adding to the Bible or are developing new doctrines.

345 posted on 12/15/2014 7:12:21 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

Who removed Canonical texts? I am pretty sure it wasn’t the Catholic Church. Instead, Luther in 1534, decided the Canon needed to be changed. And changed to suit his novel teachings. Those who followed Luther in turning their backs on the church Christ founded, were the ones who were developing novel clarifications.

The Catholic Church has been clarifying for 2000 years. It is the only continuous Church to be doing so. Our Orthodox brothers have also been doing so for 1000 years. In both cases, people DID speak and read the original languages, and that is how the doctrine and clarifications developed.

It was renowned linguist, St. Jerome (347-420 AD), who translated the books of the Bible into a single language, Latin. The Jerusalem Bible, as it continues to be known, was THE definitive Bible for centuries. Other translations, in other languages, such as the Douay-Rheims, were not only based upon not only the Jerusalem Bible, but also the original texts as well.

As mentioned above, it was 1534 years after Jesus that Luther decided, and others followed, to create novel doctrine, based upon a corrupted, and incomplete canon.


363 posted on 12/15/2014 7:32:44 AM PST by SpirituTuo
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To: ealgeone; moder_ator; Jim Robinson

Now the poster claims Catholicism is a cult. Why has this thread not been pulled?


437 posted on 12/15/2014 9:25:46 AM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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