Did the Catholic Church promulgate the Bible? And if so, by whose authority did they?

Question

A question for Catholics, Protestants, Non- Denominational and private sectors.......Cults included !!!!!

Answer 1

Of course the Catholics promulgated the bible.
You could hardly expect them to allow the people access to scripture that in any way inspired man to challenge the institution and powerbase of political control.
By removing references to self empowerment the Catholic Church were able to keep control over hundreds of millions of blind faithful subjects for hundreds of years.
This was no accident.
The bible is highly edited

Answer 2

Your question is quite complicated. Because catholic means "universal". Now, if you mean Roman Catholic Church , then it's more vivid to me. No, Roman Catholic Church never promulgated the Bible. The best term we can use here is the word "canonization". No one (human being) possesses authority of the Bible, because the accumulation of it was done by thorough study of what to include in the accumulation of the Holy Writings known to many as the "Bible."

Answer 3

Long before the emergence of the Catholic church, the bible has been used already. Although it has not been compiled to that one book before, the people of earlier times have a copy of them, some were patiently handwritten as there was no printing means yet.

They refer to the bible books as scrolls, scriptures.

Jesus himself was reading the book of Isaiah. He quotes from it even during the time when Satan was tempting him, even Satan knew the Scriptures.

To this I say, the bible was compiled and promulgated by God, if not, why would it be the best selling book of all time and why has efforts to destroy it failed?

As the Sanhedrin Gamaliel puts it: “If this scheme or this work is from men, it will be overthrown; but if it is from God, you will not be able to overthrow them.” “Otherwise, you may perhaps be found fighters actually against God.”—Acts 5:34, 38, 39.

Answer 4

Seems no one really knows the answer to the question.

Yes, Pope Damasus promulgated the bible in the year 397 or more properly the canon of scripture.

He was confirming the decisions of the local synod at Hippo Regius and Rome. If you read Acts 1:46 you will read that Matthias succeeded Judas Iscariot as an apostle, so Matthias was the first bishop. All bishops maintain and hold the apostolic authority through their ordination. The bishop of Rome as successor to Peter and Paul as Rome was their city of martyrdom, though in particular in his role as successor to Peter, has always been considered the lead bishop throughout Christianity. Ignatius of Antioch, who was trained by Peter and John and ordained by Peter, explicitly addresses the Roman bishop as what we now call the pope. The word pope only exists in English as the word hasn't changed but the meaning and pronunciation have. It is simply papa. You get a number of such references in the early Church. The first time you see the bishop of Rome acting as pope is in the late60's, while John was still alive. Clement, writing to the church at Corinth, had already begun the role we now call the papacy. Clement too was ordained by Peter and succeeded Linus I believe to the papacy following the martyrdom of Peter.

Jesus gave Peter the keys to the kingdom, a clear rabbinical term, further he gave Peter alone the responsibility of "feeding my sheep," following the Resurrection. Peter alone was given responsibility for the entire Church. For reasons unknown, the earliest Christians understood the papacy as residing at Rome. It wasn't open to be a revolving ministry, for example, nor did it sit in Jerusalem or Antioch both more theologically rational choices, except for the martyrdom. I would point out that the see of Mark is Alexandria and that is also where Mark was martyred.

Luther correctly understood this problem when he began the 97th translation of the bible into German. If he accepted the bible, he had to accept papal authority alone. If he rejected papal authority he rejected the bible, they are intimately and logically tied together. So he rechose the books and excluded the books Protestants now call the apocrypha, James, Jude and Revelations.

James, King of England, as new Head of the Church upon taking over the Pope's role also authorized a bible, again on his divine authority alone. James of England, by divine right of kings, alone felt he had the authority. Ironically, to accept the KJV is to accept that America is a criminal body violating the social and divine compact between God and the King of England.

While one could possibly argue about the authority of the Catholic episcopate to choose the books, but until Luther it was a non-issue.

Catholic episcopal authority is by direct ordination. Each bishop can show the list of people who were in their chain of ordination back to the apostles and from them back to the call of the apostles in the bible. Only Catholics, Orthodox and Copts can show this chain. Protestants simply picked their own ministers and have no claim of apostolic authority. Their authority is purely charismatic. It rests upon the total correctness or failures of either Luther, Queen Elizabeth successor to Henry VIII the sociopath, Calvin, or a variety of anabaptist leaders. Catholics are well aware of the failures of their leaders throughout history, but at least the authorizing party was the apostles.

Answer 5

Two wild teenages promulgated a homeless man on Fourth South and State, and were in turn promulgated by the police; but as far as the Catholic Church promulgating the Bible, they wouldn't dare...hold on, let me check my dictionary...
Oh! Never mind --

Answer 6

During a lot of the history of the 'Catholic' church, the bible was suppressed, and the common people forbidden to read it or even own a copy.

Answer 7

Catholics have always been against the true bible. They have their own bible as some other religions do. People that want to have their way will go to any extreme to do so. Including trying to persuade you to drop your belief if it is against theirs. Stick to the King James version Holy Bible. You won't go wrong. God will deal with the Catholics and everyone else that is against him and his true word.

Answer 8

Yes by the Emperor Constantine's order

Answer 9

Merry Christmas and a Happy new Year

Answer 10

yes.Gods.