Did the King of Constantine and pope really edit the Bible and made The Bible convinient to him and Papacy?

Question

Constantine hated christians. When he bacame one, i think he changed the Bible so that we wouldnt know what truly God has to say us. And constantine did this for a sort of a revenge. He is so idiotic

Answer 1

No.

The original language documents have not changed. The Dead Sea Scrolls helped prove this. The scrolls testify to the accuracy of the people who copied and recopied the Scriptures over the centuries. Despite minor errors, they show us that the Bible has not changed since the first and second centuries.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

No, they didn't. This is a fabrication. You want to know how I know?

Not everyone who was a Christian was a friend of Constantine or the Pope. For example, the Assyrians. They were pretty well cut off from Constantine and the Pope for centuries. But they have exactly the same Bible. Also, we have manuscripts from before the time of Constantine, and they all pretty much agree with the Bibles that are after. Last and not least, there were political discidents who hated Constantine and the Pope, and hurled all kinds of attacks against them, even called Constantine an idol worshiper, but they never accused them of changing the Bible. Those who say that Constantine or the Pope or anyone else for that matter changed the Bible are grasping at straws.

The only one I've heard that made any sense was when someone said, "The Apostles must have been the ones who changed the New Testament." To which I said, "You're right, if it was changed, it had to have been changed by the Apostles, and they are the ones who WROTE it, so they have that right."

Answer 3

The Bible has been edited many times. But, yes, Emperor Constantine and Pope Irenaeus edited versions of the Bible to fit closely with their interpretations of what the Jesus movement was all about. Before Irenaeus there was no "Bible." There were many gospels - perhaps hundreds - and the select Hebrew scriptures that make up the Old Testament. Irenaeus wrote a pamphlet on which books were considered to be "canon" - or in conjunction with the teachings of the church, and which books were to be considered heresy. The accepted books of the canon were eventually incorporated into the Catholic Vulgate - the essential Bible as we know it. Of course when the Bible was translated into English (and other languages) new interpretations were created.

UPDATED: Constantine didn't hate Christians. Where have you been getting your information? He ended the persecution of Christians and he and his mother converted to Christianity. He did more to spread the faith than any other single human being.

Answer 4

Well, if you read the new testament, is there really anything "convenient" so to speak in there? The Gospels have a message opppsite to that which any emporer could want. It calls for not saving up on riches, for giving to the poor, for non violence! If one of Jesus's central messages was to 'turn the other cheek' how could this have been allowed to remain in the Bible when the roman empire was so savage? Constantine was a warrign emperor, who only converted to christianity (supposedly ) on his deathbed anyway. One of the ways You can tell that no editing has taken place simply by the content.

Answer 5

Well, in the first place, the Emperor Constantine had the city of Istanbul named after him, and it was called "Constantinople" When the Europeans were ousted from that town, the Muslims (or Saracens as they were called at the time) re-named it.

As far as I know, he made Christianity OK for Europeans, who at the time were mostly Pagans. I am not aware of anything he did to the Bible. The Bible was compiled by St Jerome about 50 yrs later.

He spent his retirement in a monastery in Bethlehem, and did most of the work there. He at first included the Septuagint, but later thought it was uninspired. The part of the bible that was rejected by the protestants, he thought of as inspired and often refered to them.

Answer 6

Here's a perspective from a Coptic who went to Catholic School.
The Council of Nicene which you are talking about didn't involve much of the emperor. Most of the council was split on only one key issue: Weither Jesus existed since the dawn of creation or if he was created at the moment of Mary's visit by Gabriel (The Emmaculate Conception by the way is the birth of Mary to her mother Anne-as any good nun will beat into you brain with a yard stick). The Gnostics (already hermits of christianity) and the Coptics felt the latter (made) and questioned his divinity to a greater degree as well as the importance of the Virgin Mary. The key word of the whole split was the word "made" vs. "existed always". The Gnostics believed many other things that would latter be heresy (Jesus' Brothers, Children by the Magedelene, the Jack-*** story from his youth), but at the time this was the only one that caused any problems.

Answer 7

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.

Every effort was made to ensure that this online version is an exact match to the original printed version. No words were added or ommitted from the text, except for correcting errors caused by the scanning process. No words were rearranged. No verse numbers were changed, except in the case of Psalm 9.

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.

Answer 8

Constantine slaughtered many Christians before he became one himself. He found that they had a good sense of community. But Constantine was originaly a pagan. This is why we refer to Jesus being born on the 25th of December. This is really when the Sun moves out the farthest distance from Earth. It is known as the death of the son. Then we have the spring ritual we call Easter Sunday, also known as the birth of the Sun. Aside from that Constantine left out many of the books which were not considered of the Cannanites. So, many books were lost or destroyed throughout history. Here is the truth of what I have discovered. God is not found in any books. He is within in us. Most of the time history is destined to repeat itself. People are inspired to write and others to read. Some leader pushes their agenda and it always falls apart. Whether it may be our Bible, or our Constitution, maybe its a communist or socialist dictatorship, but they always fall down, all of them. Then we rebuild ourselves again, and follow another party to our demise.

Answer 9

Absolutely not. The Catholics do have their own Bibles: Latin Vulgate, Rhems-Douhay (sp), and most recently, the New American Bible. They contain some books not considered canon. Other than that, they say the same as any other translation or version. We have manuscripts that we translate Bibles from that pre-date any pope, and some that pre-date Constantine.

Answer 10

For one thing, it wasn't "King of Constantine." It was Emperor Constantine or Constantine the Great. Try doing a little research on your own.