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.
Yes but if there is no proof that some of the books weren’t written in Hebrew then the whole point behind your post is to sneak in your implied opinion in place of his. It takes no advanced education to do that. That’s the oldest trick in the book. No pun intended.