what can you SAY ABOUT THIS?

Question

Is it REALLY TRUE that "THE BIBLE" is INCOMPLETE and NOT SUFFICIENT as basis of FAITH and in LEADING US TO ATTAIN SALVATION...

Answer 1

That's a true statement.

Answer 2

Hmm... complicated question...

OK, here we go with my beliefs, take it or leave it:

There are certain things in the Bible which I call necissary, for lack of a better term. What I mean by that is that the things in these are important to understand what it really means to be "saved," and that all other things in the Bible are built from them. They're like the basic Euclidian (sp?) rules in geometry. These necissary things are: Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul's letters, 1 Peter, 1 John, Hebrews, and James. If you've got those, then everything else is built from that foundation.

BUT, even if you totally understand and believe everything the Bible says, that isn't enough to be "saved." God will not be made a fool on the last day. A person who reads the Bible and realizes it's all true, and says, "Cool, God, I know you're out there, and you're in charge," and then goes through life living like the worst kind of heathen will find out on the last day that his confidence placed wrong.

Answer 3

I think so. Do some research on the Council Of Nicea. Emperor Constantine became the first Holy Roman Emperor, and to unite his empire, he sat down with his cardinals and put together a collection of gospels and that commonly accepted today. He did take a lot out too. There are many gospels not in the Bible including Judas and Mary Magdeline. I think the Dead Sea Scrolls are more gospels as well.

Just some food for thought, why didn't Jesus ever write anything down? Why is his story told by others so many years after his death?

Answer 4

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 5

Jesus founded his Church and left it behind on the earth to lead all men to salvation in him.

He gave power and authority to his church ... not the Bible ... and he promised to guide and keep his Church until the end of the age.

The true test of Christian faith is fidelity to God's Church, just as Jesus submitted himself to the divine will of his Father.

The Bible was never intended to be the primary rule of faith for the Christian Church. The fact that the Bible didn't even exist until the 4th century should be proof enough of that.

It is the mission of the church to truthfully guide all souls to salvation in Christ.

Those who claim the Bible can do it alone have been deceived, and the 31,000 various Protestant creeds are the proof.

Answer 6

Yes. it is a well known fact that some parts of the Bible were taken out because the leaders then and now felt threatened by the message they were bestowing. Look to the messages of Mary M. and you will see they are gone. There are many others as well but i don't have time right now to go into it. Peace.

Answer 7

ur choice of words is self-evident of ur beliefs, but in short, in a way.

salvation cannot be found anywhere than in the mind of an individual. if we r really lookin 4 spiritual healing we will become that healing.

an example is an angry person. the only way 2 heal urself 4rm being a permanently angry person is by deciding 2 be a happpy and loving person.

this is the salvation.

Answer 8

Yes, the KJ Bible is the result of a compromise between many churches.

Answer 9

The Bible says that Jesus has died to save us from sin.
If we accept Jesus as our savior, by confessing that we are a sinner and turn to God for strenght and help, we than have salvation.

Answer 10

It is not true. Where do you come up with such garbage. The Bible has been with us for a long time, withstanding the scoffings, ridicule, and stupidity of people that have never really read it completely, and have no spiritual insight to begin with.

Answer 11

2 Timothy 3:16-17 makes the following claim:
"All Scripture is beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining, that man may be fully competent, completely equipped."
FULLY competent, COMPLETELY equipped
What can you say about that?