Where did we get the bible?

[rinnie]

The Catholic Church wrote and collected together the Sacred books of the N.T and preserved them from distruction during the middle ages and made the people familiar with them.

It was the Roman Church under God that we owe the possession of the bible and its integrity to this present day.

Now how can you trust the Church to compose this collection of books and tell you the truth, but then turn around and not trust the Church to teach the truth??

I cannot understand how anyone can doubt the Church teaching’s but then trust them in wriiting the word of God. Because is it not the Same Power of the Holy Spirit that makes both things possible!!

 

[Art321]

The Catholic Church wrote and collected together the Sacred books of the N.T and preserved them from distruction during the middle ages and made the people familiar with them.

It was the Roman Church under God that we owe the possession of the bible and its integrity to this present day.

Now how can you trust the Church to compose this collection of books and tell you the truth, but then turn around and not trust the Church to teach the truth??

I cannot understand how anyone can doubt the Church teaching’s but then trust them in wriiting the word of God. Because is it not the Same Power of the Holy Spirit that makes both things possible!!

I agree completely with what you are saying but what is the point exactly of this thread? I am only saying this because there appears to countless threads on this already so I don’t see the point of creating a new one.

But maybe it has to do the fact that people are stubborn and won’t come to accept this fact.

I don’t know, just sharing my thoughts.

 

[Barbkw]

From what I’ve heard on “The Journey Home” most protestant denominations start teaching at Luther, the corrupt Catholic Church and the creation of the Guttenburg Bible.

I think we suffer from the same selective educational process. I remember the day that I realized that Jesus was a Jew and not a Catholic.

 

[Rence]

The Catholic Church wrote and collected together the Sacred books of the N.T and preserved them from distruction during the middle ages and made the people familiar with them.

It was the Roman Church under God that we owe the possession of the bible and its integrity to this present day.

Now how can you trust the Church to compose this collection of books and tell you the truth, but then turn around and not trust the Church to teach the truth??

I cannot understand how anyone can doubt the Church teaching’s but then trust them in wriiting the word of God. Because is it not the Same Power of the Holy Spirit that makes both things possible!!

I think that trusting the Church to compose a collection of books already written, and trusting them to have the only Truth, are entirely different things. Whether or not a person believes that the Church was started by Jesus, and whether or not a person believes that the Church today is very different than the community Christ assembled, and whether or not people think that the Church gradually strayed from that community that Jesus started, that doesn’t change the original writings of the apostles and disciples, despite who collected them.

People who don’t trust the Church to teach the Truth can still be confident in the Bible because that doesn’t change the fact that (for example) Paul wrote the letters in the collection of works put together by the Church. It’s not like the “Church” as it evolved into what it is today wrote those letters because they still came from Paul. Just because the Church had access to all the writings, and put them all together, doesn’t mean that non-Catholics have to trust the Church and as a result totally disregard the New Testament.

Cathlolics are confident that the Church hasn’t strayed from what Jesus intended. But not everyone is that confident. It’s a matter of faith, and it can’t be proven. But just because non-Catholics don’t believe in this diversion, doesn’t mean that they can’t believe in the words that came from the first and original apostles and disciples themselves.

 

[rinnie]

I agree completely with what you are saying but what is the point exactly of this thread? I am only saying this because there appears to countless threads on this already so I don’t see the point of creating a new one.

But maybe it has to do the fact that people are stubborn and won’t come to accept this fact.

I don’t know, just sharing my thoughts.

No I don’t think they are strbborn, I just wondered if they really thought about it in that way.

And their thoughts on it. Thats all