Do people really not realize that the Catholic Bible is the original, purest version of the Bible?
Books were removed from the Catholic Bible to create the Protestant Bible by a council of MEN. Protestants created a new God in THEIR (MAN'S) image. Isn't it Satan who tries to convince man that they are the equal or better than God?
2019-01-18T15:31:03Z
By the way, I do not subscribe to any religion. As to whether God exists, that is still an open question, for me. Religion, however, is man-made, and is primarily used to separate groups of men into conflicting factions.
2019-01-18T15:45:54Z
Hey, Chris, why can't I comment on your answer? What are you afraid of? And, I don't care what you believe, I truly do not subscribe to any religion. As an outside observer, it just amuses me that so many people (presumably Protestants) demonize the original Christian Religion and original Christian Bible. Religion truly does divide people into conflicting groups.
Anonymous2021-02-23T03:07:55Z
True, and more to the point, the Catholic Church is the original, purest version of Christianity.
The Christian Church founded at Pentecost was intact for 1000 years -- until the Great Schism of 1054. At that time there were five sees or seats of authority in the Christian Church: Antioch, Alexandria, Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Rome.
The Church split and the Christian Church of the West adopted the name "Catholic", with the bishop of Rome becoming the first Catholic pope. The Church of the East became the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church, with the four remaining Christian bishops continuing as authorities.
Well, which Catholic Bible would that be? The Catholic church has produced many different versions and, after they gave up the fight to keep it written in obscure Latin, they produced it in many different languages.
The original, pure Bible was the one written in ancient Hebrew and Koine Greek, from the end of the 1st century onwards used by all the new Christian congregations. Around 180 AD those scriptures began to be translated into Old Latin. Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, martyred in 258 AD, quotes abundantly from a Latin text which must have been a complete Bible, considering the rage of quotes. Around 300 the NT was translated into Syriac, the Old Syriac, and four Coptic versions (four dialects in Egypt). There were also early translations of the Scriptures in Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopic, Slavic and Gothic.
By 405 Jerome had translated the OT from Hebrew and the NT from Greek into Latin. It became known as the 'Latin Vulgate' translation as it was in the then popular and 'vulgar' Latin tongue of the people. It was translated from the original languages. It became the standard but gradually altered Bible of the Western church until the Protestant Reformation in the 1500s. Long before then, the Vulgate had been slowly adulterated due to ‘old’ and ‘new’ Latin being simultaneously in use, and various ‘merged’ texts were formed according to the judgment of scribes. Problems of translation increased over the 1,000 years leading to the Reformation. The Reformers understood the need to get back to the original language manuscripts from which to produce modern language translations. They used Catholic humanist scholar Erasmus's first printed Greek New Testament. The Western church insisted on sticking only to their Latin Vulgate version even though Latin was virtually 'dead' as far as the populace was concerned. The Rheims NT of 1582 and the OT version printed at Douai in 1609 (the whole thing altered and modernised by Bishop Challoner in 1749) was the English translation of the Vulgate in use for the next 200 years.
Most Greek scholarship and literature, including many biblical texts, had been in Byzantium (subsequently Constantinople, now Istanbul) and so 'lost' to the West for some time. The problem during the Dark Ages was that of translations being made from the Latin translation, not the original Bible languages. However, events conspired to enable going back to the original languages when Byzantium fell to the Ottomans in 1453. Scholars fled to Italy and koine Greek became known about in the West, with a renaissance of discovery of the Greek learning and texts of old. Paper was produced in the West, and the printing press (China had already done that, as an aside.) Guttenberg used moveable metal type to print the 'editio princeps' of the Latin Bible in 1453, but already scholars were rediscovering the original language manuscripts and translating directly from them at huge risk to themselves.
Out of a mass of manuscript data came the Received Text, used by the Reformers, and which did not change from between 1530 to 1880. That's 350 years of stability from which came the Authorised Version of 1611. You could take the Stephens text of 1550 and find it to be almost exactly the same as the Scrivener text of 1880. So, what do you mean by "the Catholic Bible" when the original, purest Bible was the one written in ancient Hebrew and Koine Greek, from the end of the 1st century onwards? I've already answered your point about the 7 Deuterocanonical writings in your previous question.
You wrote: "By the way, I do not subscribe to any religion". . Yeah, right. The third time you're asking this "question". You're a catholic.
Catholicism's "bible" is not the Word of God. It is a satanic counterfeit written by unbelievers. The true Bible only has 66 books. . The Old Testament Jews, in charge of the canon, refused those "extra" books due to God's leadership. Catholicism added them because catholicism is comprised of unbelievers. . Jesus is not in catholicism or orthodox. Reading the Bible proves to us that catholicism and orthodox are lies.. Catholicism and orthodox teach works for salvation, which leads to eternal torment in the lake of fire (Galatians 1:6-9). Catholicism and orthodox didn't even exist for over 300 years after the Bible was complete and compiled. So avoid catholicism and orthodox, get away from them both. . The truth is that Jesus loves you and wants to bless your life freely :) Most of all, Jesus wants you with Him forever, and not in hell. The truth is that every belief except one will lead to eternal torment in the lake of fire for every person. Because nothing pays for our sins except the death and blood of Jesus, the sacrifice of Jesus that is already accomplished by Him . Jesus loves you! The truth is that Jesus is God, and Jesus died on the cross to pay for all of our sins in full, and then Jesus resurrected from the dead. Nothing else pays for our sins, not works, not deeds, not religions. So the only way to heaven and to avoid hell, is by believing in Jesus for eternal life (John 6:47), without adding any of your own works (Romans 4:5). Believe in Jesus to take you to heaven, and you will be in heaven, no matter what, guaranteed. That easy, thanks to Jesus! Tell Jesus that you thank Him that you will be with Him in heaven when you die, because you believe in Jesus! It is too late to be saved, after death.