I have been Catholic since birth, all 70 years and I have never heard both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible called a Catholic book. The Old Testament of the Bible was not written by Catholics, but Jews. The Bible as a completge book was compiled by the Catholic Church. The New Testament was written by the religious ancestors, (you know Mark, Matthew, Luke, John, Paul, Peter etc.) of those who are Catholic today.
Luke was Greek, I believe.Catholic Church has that - it’s called tradition.
IT is an emotionally sad time but it should be a spiritually uplifiting one. The color, barring martyrdom, is white, as it is for Easter and Christmas. We are to see that though they are dead to the earth, they are alive in Christ! It is one of the reasons that we are not to have eulogies. A funeral mass is meant to be a time that we remember the promise of the resurrection and celebrate the new member of the communion of saints.
No doubt. The NT was written to go along with the Oral Teachings. Just as the OT had oral teachings that went along with it.
i have no idea, really, why this is the case but i always feel there is something “extra” special, spiritually, about a funeral Mass… At all Masses, the hosts of Heaven participate… angels & saints… but i have had particularly… interesting experiences (spiritual) at funeral Masses… (words are failing me…)…
Well if you know any thing about Christian you will know by the time the bible was written all the apostle where CATHLOIC, they become Cathloic in 33ad.
True, but replacement theology is a bunch of crappola sold by haters and baiters who cling to this idea of Paul “inventing” Christianity. There are more than a few of these haters on the boards here who ignore Ephesians 2 11-18.
Exactly this is a new polemic which Catholics are jumping on to try to discredit NonCatholics from using the bible in their defense.I have been Catholic since birth, all 70 years and I have never heard both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible called a Catholic book. The Old Testament of the Bible was not written by Catholics, but Jews. The Bible as a completge book was compiled by the Catholic Church. The New Testament was written by the religious ancestors, (you know Mark, Matthew, Luke, John, Paul, Peter etc.) of those who are Catholic today.
Bill you really had to go back to dig this one up.
What people are trying to get at is that, being that the Bible came from the same group of Bishops who also gave us the Perpetual Virginity of Mary, the doctrine of Transubstantiation, and a great many other Catholic distinctives, why do you pick the Bible out as being reliable, but nothing else?
Not literally, no.
Did Jesus Christ write down any part of the New Testament with His own hand? No, He did not. If the Bible was to be the sole authority of the Church, shouldn’t the Founder have written down His Own teachings? Shouldn’t He have at least stated something similar to the following: “the written works of My disciples will be the authority upon which My Church is based?”
YES, You are right most of the Apostles are Jew and OuR LORD Jesus is a JEW so your point is WHAT
Let me write this so you will understand,Most of the Apostle are Jewish and Our Lord is a Jew, the OT was not written by Cathloic it was written by Jewish people,the NT was written by Cathloic and the Bible was put together By the apostle Bishops Cathloic in about 300 or 400 ad and they are all cathloic.,a lot of book did not make it in to the Bible The gospel of Peter,the gospel of Mary and many more that I cant thing of at this time,and SS was not taugh untill the reforums, In fact we did not have a protestants on this earth untell the reforums. Hope this will help you,
Wow that’s deep.
Actually, Hisalone is correct, but perhaps you are both just talking past each other.
Bill is it Gods will that the bible was written?
Hisalone,
Thank you for trying to be reasonable.
If you read the OT prophets many will say that Gods word or the word of the Lord which came to me was a burden. Gods word becomes a burden a heavy weight that will not leave the man of God in peace until the burden is released by speaking it or by writting it down.Not literally, no.
God’s actions in their lives inspired men to tell the stories of how God’s people lived out God’s covenant with them, which they then wrote down. In the late 300s AD, Pope Damasus saw the need to identify these writings and have them collected together into a single volume, and translated into a language that could be understood by the ordinary people. Three Councils were called - Rome, Carthage, and Hippo. These three Councils took about 12 years or so to identify the works that could reliably be considered to be inspired by the Holy Spirit.
By the time those three Councils had finished their work, Pope Damasus had died, and had been replaced by Pope Innocent I. Pope Innocent I accepted the work of the three Councils, and proclaimed to the Church that we now have 73 Books of the Scriptures, to be compiled and translated into a Bible. The work of compiling and translating was organized by a Catholic priest named Jerome, who took himself (and his helpers) off to a solitary place in the wilderness to complete this work.
When Jerome was finished his work, he returned to Rome with the world’s first Christian Bible.
The Pope examined it, found it to be worthy of the Church, signed it with his approval, and ordered copies to be made. These copies were made by hand, by various orders of monks. Bibles were hand-copied for centuries, until the invention of the printing press by Gutenberg, in Germany.