Did you know that the Bible is a Catholic book?

Question

Did you know that the New Testament was written, copied and collected by Catholic Christians?

How about that the official canon of books in the Bible were determined by the Catholic Church in the 4th Century?

Did you know that Martin Luther said "We are obliged to yield many things to the Papists (Catholics) that they possess the word of God which we received from them, otherwise we should have known nothin at all about it."

Did you know that while the Catholic Church didn't write the Old Testament it did use it's authority to determine which books should be in the bible and to assure us that everything in the Bible is inspired?

One last question. Did you know that if your Bible contains Wisdom, Sirach, Judith, Baruch, Tobit and 1& 2 Maccabees you're using the same Old Testament that Jesus and the New Testament writers used?

Answer 1

Actually you are wrong on several counts. The Bible is mostly a Jewish book, the books in protestant Bibles came from the reformation, and you were not there with Jesus to know what books were in His old testament. If Hebrew was a dead language (this is what leads you to this conclusion), why does the Catholic Church teach that the book of Mathew was written in Hebrew?

Answer 2

1. Did you know that the New Testament was written, copied and collected by Catholic Christians?
Is that fair? My bible was collected by catholic Christians which is different than Catholic Christians. It was collected by the catholic church when it was still the church universal, not the Catholic church we know today.

2. How about that the official canon of books in the Bible were determined by the Catholic Church in the 4th Century?
Yes. That is a sad and inconvenient truth.

3. Did you know that Martin Luther said...
No, I didn't but that is very good info. I am glad to have read it.

4. Did you know that while the Catholic Church didn't write the Old Testament it did use it's authority to determine which books should be in the bible and to assure us that everything in the Bible is inspired?
Yes, I knew that the Catholic church chose what was going to be in the official bible.

5. Did you know that if your Bible contains Wisdom, Sirach, Judith, Baruch, Tobit and 1& 2 Maccabees you're using the same Old Testament that Jesus and the New Testament writers used?
My bible, I see. Actually, my bible doesn't contain any of those. I do however own the apocripha which it interesting reading. My bible contains Wisdom of Soloman and not Cronicals.
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Answer 3

Thank you for pointing out to most people that they have an incomplete version of the bible if they choose to use KJV, NKJV, etc. All Bibles should contain Wisdom, Sirach, Judith, Baruch, Tobit and 1& 2 Maccabees to be considered complete. I completely agree with the quote from Martin Luther! Since all other denominations of the Christian faith (Baptists, Lutheran, Methodist, etc) all broke away from the Catholic Church to form their own church, they would not exist without the Catholic faith!

Answer 4

Yes I do know and my Bible does contain Wisdom, Sirach, Judith, Baruch, Tobit and both books of Maccabees. I tell many of the Bible only Christians that they would have no Bible if it were not for the Catholic Church. Funny thing, they don't believe me. One day God will reveal His truth to them.

Answer 5

Actually, I knew all but the last paragraph. But choosing which books were selected for the new testament did require more than what you wrote. Some books people knew were fake. Take the Book of Judas. Did you know that people have known about it since it was written (I think around 100AD) and that everyone knew when it was written that it was not legitimate? There are also books that did not say agree with other books. In addition, some gospels (like Thomas) had not been discovered (maybe it had been lost, etc) and so it was not included for that reason. You can find and read a lot of gospels that were not included in the New Testament. They are in all sorts of books and are online.

Answer 6

The apocrypha was not canonized by anyone except for the Catholics...

It was written originally in Greek (NT) and Hebrew (OT)..

There were fights between popes as to who would have control of the Bible.

The Catholic Church is responsible for the greatest amount of illiteracy in the world as it ACTUALLY PROMOTED the idea that if the people of the Church simply listend to their pastors..they'd learn the truth from him and there was NO NEED for them to read the Bible...since that was for centuries the ONLY book available for many people...then people in large amounts became illiterate-all in the name of faith.

Did you know that the books of the New Testament are NOT written in Chronological order? Especially Revelations????

Answer 7

Yes to all of these questions. I am a Catholic.
The 73 Books of the Bible were approved by the Councils of Hippo(393 AD) and Carthage
(397 AD). Pope Damasus 1 commissioned
St. Jerome to translate them into Latin about
382AD. In 405, The Pope gave the same list
to another Bishop who asked for the inspired
books.

Answer 8

I use the Kings James vision Bible. It it the true word of God from the beginning, to the end. There are no lost books in this Bible. Jesus is the living word, and the Bible is the written word, and i believe them both.

Answer 9

Well, sure, at the time of the nicene council when the bible was initially put together, there was only one, christianity. There were no protestants, baptists, etc., so of course it would be deemed catholic, since that was the first denomination. Don't forget Enoch, that's one book I most definately plan on reading.

Answer 10

Did you know that most of the Bible is a Jewish book?