How can we know the true works of the Bible when some of it has been altered by the Catholic church before letting the common man read it? Is the Bible inerrant -- without error?
2006-07-01 15:56:28 · 19 answers · asked by machinator 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
is it?
hmm if that were true then i guess god also created wives for cane and able but forgot to mention it.
i guess there is a good reason why an unconditional loving god has 10 conditions to be in his good graces (commandments)
and that much of the original hebrew that it comes from doesnt mention half of what the english version says. and i could go on but with all the errors with my spirit i would want no errors and i found mine in nature and wicca. no child molesting priest telling me im going to hell for masturbating or being gay. no pious pompus pope telling me to live like a poor jesus when he makes more then 20 us presidents side to side. nope in all that silly **** they sell as a fear of going to hell i found out that i could take my spirit and go where i wanted so i explored the heaven they said was there and its there but its hollow. its lame and after a while depending on how dependant you are on your beliefs you see it too. and the hells are not the brimstone and fire they make it out to be. it seems more like an energy prison for people to learn more about themselves and why they did what they did. free to leave at any time when they truely forgive themselves and move on with self love. the crap they sell in christianity has so many holes in it swiss cheese is jealous.
2006-07-01 16:09:17 · answer #1 · answered by mournyngwolf 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There would likely be no bible if it wasn't for the work of dedicated Catholic scholars, priests, and saints!
St. Peter and the other apostles read old testament scripture to the original disciples and the early Christians at every Mass.
The first bishops of the Catholic church either wrote or helped to write the four Gospels, in order to accurately preserve the authentic, eye witness accounts of our redemption by Christ.
The pastoral letters of the first Catholic bishops constitute the new testament epistles.
Why would they go through the trouble of writing all this stuff if they wanted to keep it secret?
The bible was always available for anyone to read, from the earliest days of the church. The problem is, that most people couldn't read.
Illiteracy was the near universal condition of much of the world, until about 90 years ago.
Hand written, elaborately decorated bibles of the time were also very expensive, and very scarce.
It took a dedicated scribe over a year to make a fairly plain one.
Catholic priests and bishops could read, so they shared the scriptures by reading them to the faithful at Mass, and later, at all the great Catholic schools and universities.
Do your research and you'll find out that the Catholic church never altered the bible. St. Jerome was the first great bible scholar. In order to preserve the bible, He went back to all the remaining source documents available at the time, and produced the most reliable translation ever done. It's still a great translation today ... if you know how to read Latin.
Hand made copies of St. Jerome's bible were reproduced with great care and accuracy. Later, Gutenberg printed lots of Catholic bibles, using his new printing press, and sold them for very reasonable prices, to anyone and everyone who wanted to buy them.
It was others who introduced their own unauthorized revisions into the bible, shortly after Martin Luther first rose to prominence. Luther was particularly fond of inserting the word, "alone" into the epistle of St. James. Other "reformers" followed suit, and inserted their unauthorized changes, too.
Evidently, God's own word wasn't quite good enough for them!
Please check your facts, so your next post/question might be without error, as well.
2006-07-02 06:08:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I'm afraid it is not inerrant. There are numerous contradictions in the thing. What we think of as the Bible is a disjointed collection of old essays and scraps of old texts that have been selected on the basis of what people wanted to believe and, more importantly, based upon what they wanted others to believe. There are more texts and gospels produced by devout Christian men than appear in your Bible - several times more, in fact. There really is no good reason for any of the texts you see in your Bible to have been chosen for inclusion and not the others. And please don't pin all the blame on the Roman Catholic church - other groups had their hands in the pudding also.
Here's a challenge: in all the current Protestant versions, as well as the bible used by the Roman Catholics, there is a passage that tells us that there is no afterlife - that when we die, that's it. See if you can find that passage! Then explain its presence in the same volumne wherein it's said that Jesus said "I go to prepare a place for you..."
2006-07-01 23:16:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of the translations of the Bible contain some errors. However, in the best translations the errors are insignificant. The Catholic church doesn't have a lock on what's in the Bible. You can rest assured that the omnipotent Creator of this universe has provided us with a sufficiently accurate account of what He wants us to know about ourselves and about Him.
You can download the Free e-Sword software from the Free Stuff page on my site and compare the actual words contained in the original manuscripts to how various translations have rendered them.
2006-07-01 23:28:08 · answer #4 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes....and no...
The Bible is over 99% pure, however there exist a few copyist errors or passages scholars are unsure about. However these are very small in meaning, and do not relate at all to the doctrine of Christianity.
there are books that were written by people hundreds of years after Jesus, however they were left out for a reason.
Just because something is written and claims to be authoritative, does not mean it is.
2006-07-01 22:58:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible, No. The translation yes! The interpretation of the bibles over the years are so muddled that you must delve into the original language to get the real scoop of the story.
2006-07-01 23:01:43 · answer #6 · answered by Marky-Mark! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The work we have today is not.... The original texts were lost well over 1500 years ago. Man has been mucking about with what we have to day so much that no one can honestly make that claim
BUT. For those who have the leading of The Holy Spirit God's wll can still be found in what has been preseved for us.
If you would like to read some of my pov on this you may at:
http://pages.zdnet.com/mikevanauken/mikesinternetoutreach/id4.html
All honest seekers are welcome
2006-07-01 23:02:33 · answer #7 · answered by IdahoMike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the very beginning, in Genesis, the bible states that the sun moves around the earth.
We know for a fact that this is wrong.
2006-07-01 23:10:21 · answer #8 · answered by l00kiehereu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible is the Word of God written by humans inspired via the Holy Spirit of God. It is the Truth and Truth as no falseness in it.
2006-07-01 23:04:44 · answer #9 · answered by minimule67 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I only read the KJV which I believe to be 100% inerrant written.
2006-07-01 23:03:44 · answer #10 · answered by asia391 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋