How old is the Catholic church and when was it established? Did they compile the bible? "canonize" text?

Question

Most christians in America are a further splintering from the protestant church, a product of the Reformation in England.
Why do Protestants worship the book more than those who actually toted it through most of it's history?

azar and bath:
wait a minute, at the time of the reformation, just about EVERYONE in the general public was ILLITERATE,
never mind reading LATIN, they couldn't read ENGLISH!

Answer 1

"Catholic Church" is a term first used in 110AD, a little bit earlier than the "Protestant Church", which invented itself in 1521.

They're both nonsense, of course, but common sense should tell you the Catholics must be closer to the "truth" than the Protestants, for if they both worship "Jesus Christ", there is a vague possibility the Catholics had facts when they established their church, but almost no chance the Protestants did!

Answer 2

The Bible was a collaboration between the Jews and the Catholics. They decided what books would be included for whatever purpose they decided. Many books were excluded. This is taught in seminary schools. The reason that there is splintering in the church is because ppl don't believe the "religious" explanations given by any one sect. They think they know better and explain the bible differently. Now you really need to remember that the books of the bible were written by men, not by God, and many years before Christ (Old Testament) and many years after Christ (New Testament) No text written by the Father, Son or Holy Ghost.

Answer 3

The Catholic Church is about 1970 years old. I was, essentially, founded by Paul, Peter and John, but formalized after their untimely deaths by Constantine who authorized an edition of the Bible that basically Catholics and Protestants accept.

This Bible purged about 50 to 100 other "scriptures" some of which are not at all like what you read int he bible, but some may be important.

The Protestant Bible is basically the word of Henry VIII who did two drafts through his theoglians, the second draft removed about 10 chapters. That is known as the King James Bible.

Catholicism was basically DEVELOPED by Constatine as a method if controlling the world through a religious, rather than poltical, empire.

Constantine's aires failed with the Greeks, Russions and a few others and then screwed up really badly with Henry VIII and his divorce problem and Martin Luther and his problem with "buying" out of sin in advance.

The Germans, some French and English saw all this as a chance to "break" the power of the Church and splinter it and it worked!

The Catholic empire dimished by 50% in about 300 years.

Catholics were NOT permitted to read or interpret the bible until more recent times.

The BIBLE was written in Greek or LAtin, thus only a few highly educated could read it.

Church services were in Latin and few understood it.

Protestants encouraged reading of the bible and letting people interpret the Bible on their own. They also encouraged bibles written in local languages.

As for the Bible, itself, the Jews were splintered in to two groups, one of which was the Pharasees, who said only the written text was acceptable. Another groups wanted the verbal storieds passed by generations incorprorated.

So the Bible you read is CENSORED by the Pharasees (who insitgated the crusifiction of Jesus) and CONSTANTINE who decided what books were proper to teach.

Catholics are still NOT permitted to interpret the Bible only the Pope can do that.

The Pope says the Bibles says no rubbers or pills for birth control, that is law.

The Pope says only Latin can be used for services, taht is law.

The Pope says you must not eat any meat other than Fish on Friday, that is law.

YOu go up agaisnt the Pope you are removed fromt he religion and told you will go to hell as a blasphemer!

In the Proestant church you beleive what you want to and live your life accordingly.

The Catholic Bible and general Protestant bible are accurate to about 97%, of each other with only some "stress" and "bias" elements changed slightly.

AS for reading, yes, but the RICH could read. The affluent, which were like the Burgers, shop keepers, artisans could read in their own language. Royalty and the ultra rich took studies in Greek, Latin and other languages.

It is basically the same way today. College majors take a second or third langauge while High School Gradautes can barely speak and read English!

Answer 4

The Catholic Church goes all the way back to the ages of Jesus. It traced its origin all the way back to the original, undivided Christian community founded by Jesus, with its traditions first established by the Twelve Apostles and maintained through unbroken Apostolic Succession.

Canonization is the process of declaring someone a saint and involves proving that a candidate has lived in such a way that he or she qualifies for this. It is incorrect to refer to the church as "making" someone a saint, since a person's saintliness does not rely on the canonization process, which is regarded as one of fact-finding. It is currently practiced by the Catholic Church (including the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches), by the Eastern Orthodox Church, and by the Oriental Orthodox Churches (the Church of England does not rule out canonization, but it has only ever canonized one man; see Charles I of England).

And on the reason for the Protestants worship the book more than those who actually toted it through most of its history, I have no clue, but ask me anything about the Catholic Church and I will found out for you or I already know. So ask away? (By the way I was raised Catholic)

Answer 5

The Catholic Church was founded in the year 33 , with Peter at the direction of Jesus.

Catholics are often accused of arguing in a "vicious circle," proving the Bible by the Church and the Church by the Bible. We must be careful to avoid this by explaining:

(a) That we put the Church before the Bible because the Church existed first and wrote and compiled the Bible. The authority of the Bible depends on that of the Church.

(b) When we use the Bible to prove the Church, we use it not as an inspired volume, but merely as a historical document.

From the Gospels as historical documents we learn that Christ founded a Church, but the authority of the Gospels as inspired writings rests on the word of the Church.

We can define the Bible as "a collection of writings which the Church of God has solemnly recognized as inspired" (Catholic Encyclopedia). What is the non-Catholic's definition?

St. Paul says, indeed: "All Scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice, that the man of God may be perfect, furnished to every good work" (2 Tim. 3:16-17). But he gives no list of Scriptures nor any method for discerning which they are.

Answer 6

Catholic dogma is that It began with Peter. However, "catholic" means "universal," so the Catholic Church you're probably thinking of came along much later.

The Church fathers were led to choose the inspired writings (versus those of questionable authorship), & yes, compiled the Bible, much as we have it today.

The Protestant movement started, mainly, due to the practice of financial indulgencs (paying to get souls out of Purgatory), & other monetary issues. Also problematic, was that the Sctiptures were written for only priests to read. The general public had no access & thus could not form any other interpretation that that of the Church (who was obviously misusing the power vested in it).

BTW, we don't worship the book, we worship the Author.

Answer 7

The Church itself would claim its roots in the apostle Peter, but I have no idea the official date if there is one. My best guess would be when Constantine made Christianity the official Roman religion, it seems like that would give the Church its springboard. This was around 400 AD.

The Council of Nicea, sanctioned by Constatine, compiled books of the Bible into what everyone could agree on. Groups voted for what they thought should be in the canon. Viola. The Bible.

Answer 8

The Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church were founded in the same year, but "divorced" in 1054 via the Great Schism.

Some Protestants have grown tired of "sola scriptura" and returned to the Orthodox, rather than Catholic, fold. Other churches have embraced gay marriage and other "deviations" from the Holy Traditions of the formerly One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.

Answer 9

The Catholic church was formed about 325 AD. They came about out of the Nicene Council. The Apostolic church was the one founded by Christ, and begun by the Apostles circa 33 AD.

Answer 10

THE BIBLE Only Is The All Sufficent Guide To Salvation, But The CatholicChurch Teaches That It Is Not.
The Catholic Catechism For Adults on page 52 says, "Can you learn to save your soul just by reading the Bible? No, because certain things in the Bible can be misunderstood, and because the Bible does not have everything God taught." yet in
2 Tim. 3:15-17 says, "And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures, which can instruct thee to salvation, by faith which is Christ Jesus.