It seems so many religious people are ending up in the headlines molesting little kids, paying for sex and buying meth. It seems that gay priests are so messed up that they hide in the closet and campaign against themselves. Is all this preaching a result of people feeling guilty about how their actions conflict whith the teachings of the bible? Is religion the only way they see to control themselves?
2006-11-06 18:09:54 · 10 answers · asked by Adam H 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Holy Bible Douay-Rheims Version
With Challoner Revisions 1749-52
1899 Edition of the John Murphy Company
IMPRIMATUR:
James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899.
Pope Damasus assembled the first list of books of the Bible at the Roman Council in 382 A.D. He commissioned St. Jerome to translate the original Greek and Hebrew texts into Latin, which became known as the Latin Vulgate Bible and was declared by the Church to be the only authentic and official version, in 1546.
The DR New Testament was first published by the English College at Rheims in 1582 A.D. The DR Old Testament was first published by the English College at Douay in 1609 A.D. The first King James Version was not published until 1611. This online DRV contains all 73 books, including the seven Deutero-Canonical books (erroneously called Apocrypha by Protestants). These seven books were included in the 1611 KJV, but not in later KJV Bibles.
The whole Douay-Rheims Bible was revised and diligently compared with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749-1752 A.D. The notes included in the text were written by Dr. Challoner.
The DR Bible was photographically reproduced from the 1899 edition of the John Murphy Company, Baltimore, Maryland, by Tan Books in 1971. Eventually, this edition was optically scanned to produce a large text file which this publisher used for creating this website, with the aid of text-processing software.
One important goal of this project was to preserve the original text "as is", without making any changes in the wording, because the original text had the Imprimatur of James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, dated Sept 1st 1899.
The text file was checked quite thoroughly by software written by the publisher for punctuation errors and verses out of order. The index was humanly checked for misspelled words and the corrections were made to the text. However, some spelling errors may still be present in the text. Many verses were out of order in the original file. These have been corrected.
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Psalm 9 originally contained 21 verses and there were 2 versions of Psalm 10, numbering 1-18 and 1-8. This obviously caused a conflict, so it was decided to make the first Psalm 10 as the last part of Psalm 9 and renumber the verses 22-39. This retains the same numbering as all the Douay Rheims. Note, in the Protestant Bibles the numbering of Psalms 10 through 146 differs by one.
2006-11-08 16:16:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are always going to be "bad" examples of any group of people, no matter who they are or what they believe and yes, GASP, Christians sometimes stumble in their spiritual walk. The media likes to pick on Christians because so many of them are agnostic/atheistic and they see us as zealots, fanatics, etc...trying to force our will on them. Utter nonsense. It's bad news that usually makes headlines, any good news is usually a side note on some obsure page in the very back...
2006-11-06 18:19:36 · answer #2 · answered by prismcat38 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
Matthew 24:14
2006-11-06 18:14:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why guilt?....
There is a word which states: There are some who say they are of me... Crying out: Lord! Lord! and I will say, "I never knew you, because your heart was far from me"......
What is sexual immorality?..... Why molestation?....
These things are not a Christian thing or a religious thing, but a human thing..... It's a people thing....
Why tag that because someone wants to make a spectacle and a spotlight out of a man of the pulpit?.....
Truth be told: Christ never wants someone in his fold to be like that.....
It is even written: Romans 1:29-31
It's far beyond religion, my friend..... It's the nature of man to do evil.......
-Ginger
2006-11-06 18:24:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure theres lots of people who do that, not just religious people,
but most christians preach because they are lead by god too, and then because they are stupid they go and have an affair or something.
then beacause they are a christian or catholic or any "religion" it gets to the news because the people who want to call them hypocrites get too.
2006-11-06 18:18:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's a nice question, only that if the answer is yes (and I think it is) they will feel too guilty to admit it.
2006-11-06 18:17:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
and if everybody else was still bound by those same laws, there would be much less temptation, and they wouldn't be constantly facing the fact that someone else is having more fun than they are because they are free--it's more jealousy
2006-11-06 18:16:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
What about the thousands more who don't do that? You won't hear about them, because that would be boring news.
2006-11-06 18:12:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
that`s a good point
2006-11-06 18:13:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
nope
2006-11-06 18:12:34 · answer #10 · answered by Godb4me 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋