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MarkA16
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What evidence is there that the Catholic Church is the one that compiled the bible?
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Mannyfit75
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Read this article from Catholic.comWhat evidence is there that the Catholic Church is the one that compiled the bible?
catholic.com/thisrock/1997/9709clas.asp
I can give you a summary. Let us take Paul. We both know that Paul wrote most of the Epistles of the New Testament. If you read Acts, Paul as Saul persecuted the Church. So the Church was before the Bible.
When I address the Bible I mean both OT and NT books. The only books at the time used was the OT text.
When the Gnostic Gospels came in the 2nd Century, the Church needed to find out which books belong in the Bible. So the Church form the Councils that listed OT, plus the 27 NT books.
Here is what the Article said in the link I provided:
Though collections of sacred writings, varying in extent, existed in the various local Churches of Christendom, the canon or official list of Scripture was only compiled by the Church toward the end of the fourth century—at Hippo in 393, Carthage in 397, whence it was sent to Rome for confirmation in 419. The Bible may be called the notebook of the Church, and she has always claimed to be the guardian, exponent, and interpreter of it. . . .
By these Councils, the Bible we see today came into be. These Councils are Catholic. How do we know? Well, St. Ignatius of Antioch called the Christian Church Catholic. Let me quote him, “Where there is Jesus Christ, there is the Catholic Church.”
The OT that was approved by the Church was the Septuagint the Greek translation of the OT. The Bible later on was translated into Latin by St. Jerome. The Latin Vulgate was its name. It included the deutronacanonical books, like Tobit, Maccebees 1 and 2, etc.
It was not until the Reformation that Protestants remove those books. The books which early Christians have read.
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John666
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Hello,What evidence is there that the Catholic Church is the one that compiled the bible?
Maybe these sites will help?
newadvent.org/cathen/02543a.htm
davidmacd.com/catholic/timeline_of_how_the_bible_where.htm
And here is a book to read…
Where We Got the Bible, Bishop Henry G. Graham
God bless,
Joe
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MarkA16
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Thank you for the sources!
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