The Roman Catholic Church is based on Pagan religion and it dates back to Babylon. Why do your priests wear the hat of Dagon the fish god?
The Catholic Church hijacked the Scriptures and denied them to the common man. For centuries man had to relie on the priest to tell him what God said**. The common man wasn’t allowed to have Scriptures.** If someone was caught giving out tracts of Bible they were burned at the stake.
The great reformers tried to change the Catholic Church. Luther didn’t want to leave the church but wanted to reform it, bring it back to the Bible but Babylon will not be healed and so he came out and said the Bible and the Bible alone is our standard.
Jesus said in vain do they worship me teaching the commandments of men.
Yes they were…
this is a silly thing to say…
Excuse me but do you know how much it cost for a Bible to be copied before printing came along? Monks had to be payed to scribe every single word of the bible out BY HAND. To have complete copies put into the hands of every single layperson would have required the church to bring everything else it did to a halt, and then some. Every single person in the clergy would have been required to work 24 hours a day 7 days a week on copying out every single word of the bible. That is truly silly.
They were allowed to have bibles. only because of the amount of effort required to produce 1 bible, that 1 bible cost a rather standard book price for the time that IS MOST LIKELY MORE THAN THE CURRENT VALUE OF THE HOUSE WHERE YOU LIVE!
That is they cost around $100,000 USA dollars each. Therefore there was only enough funds to have a “one per parish” policy unless a very rich individual could afford to get one for themselves. Oh and unlike now when it is not nessecery to do so because of the magic of printing, those Bibles were chained down like public phone books, and anyone who wanted to read it could get time with it. Also copies of the single Gospels and Psalms were widely avalible to any one who wanted them as copying these out required less work, often this was a hobby of the Parish Priest. When you talk about “not allowed to ahve bible tracts” you are right, in order to make sure the bible remained of integrity, the RC put it’s foot down on erranous vernicular translations which did not translate the bible correctly, in other words they stamped out anti-catholic biblical translations. But what you don’t seem to understand is that they DID allow biblical tracts, biblical tracts and excerpts which translate the bible correctly without anti-catholicism and they were circulated very widely in nearly every single parish and not only that but they authorised them to be vernicular and not just the Vulgate.
Imagine if someone took the NWT in very large numbers into your church and started giving it out, how would you react to protect the correct scripture? you’d give out correct translations, and ban every copy of the NWT. That actually happened in the Catholic Church!
If you want to talk about the Deutrocanon now, you better be prepared for a big shock, They were actually Canonised with ALL the other books in 385AD and were only re-affirmed in the 16th century when Luther tried to challenge them. “Hyjacking Scriptures”? yes, someone did Hyjack the original scriptures, but it wasn’t the church which has kept the original complete bible scripture canon which IT created.
And by the way as soon as printing came avalible, The very first book on the press to be widely distributed was the holy bible… We all know that. But I bet you, like I once did, don’t even know which one it was…
Second Shock Horror!!
THE CATHOLIC HOLY BIBLE!!! Guttenberg was a devout catholic and the first thing he put out into the stratosphere was an authorized Latin Catholic bible. Please do more research into the history of the Bible and the church which put it together, guarded it’s correct translations with intensity from the erranous ones. I suggest you start with Catholic sources as you seem to have only gotten your biased information from Biased anti-catholic sources.