Is The Roman Church Has Brought Upon Itself The Curse Of Revelation 22:18, 19, By Adding To The Scripture?

Question

The Canon of Scripture has been closed and there is no need of additions to the word of God.

The Revelation was the final inspired book of God's word and completes the full Canon of Scripture.

Any new revelation or addition to God's word is not of God because the last book of the Bible forbids any additions to itself (Rev. 22:18).

Roman Catholic put additional 15 books of APOCRYPHA in the Bibles which they call deuterocanonical. Apocrypha books which they claim as inspired Scripture.

The Apocrypha were formally canonized by the Roman Catholic Church on April 8, 1546 A.D. at the Council of Trent. Over the years they came to be regarded by the Roman Catholic Church as "APOCRYPHA" books is part of the Bible.

The answer becomes obvious when we learn the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church which stand or fall by these Apocrypha writings alone.

The Apocrypha books has everything to do with the will of men in justifying their 'Church traditions.'

Answer 1

Absolutely.
And according to Galatians 1.

Answer 2

For those that say the canon is closed and use Revelation 22:18-19, what about Deuteronomy 4:2?

If they want to use those verses then in reality EVERYTHING AFTER DEUTERONOMY SHOULD NOT BE IN THE BIBLE.

But if they read those verses they would find that in Deuteronomy God was talking to the Isrealites and told them THEY shall not add to THAT BOOK.

Also in Revelations 22:18-19 God is talking to John in a revelation and is telling him that man shall not add to THIS BOOK, meaning the Book or Revelations. But NOBODY has been able to show me where it says that GOD CAN NOT ADD TO.

Now if they want to still use those 3 verses then answer this also, "If Gods word is NOT to be added to or taken away from WHY IS THAT WARNING IN 2 BOOKS BOTH IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE OLD TESTAMENT. " If the canon was closed that warning should ONLY be in the Book of Revelations. Another thing to think about is Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were written AFTER Revelations, so they shouldn't be in the Bible either.

If people would do their research on the Bible and when the different books were written, and they will find that there is documented proof of when the books were written, they would find that the books in the Bible are NOT PLACED in the Bible in the order they were actually written.

Also check out these verses; thye show how the early Christian Church fell away from the TRUE teachings. Notice I did NOT say the Catholic Church but the Christian Churches.

Isaiah 24: 5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

Amos 8:11 ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Answer 3

What'd they add?

See the Bible originally had 73 books. The version Martin Luther created had 66. Doesn't Revelation say something about who takes away from the Book?

Further, all of the various books in the Bible, save the Torahnic books (the first five), were stand-alone writings. The people who wrote them had absolutely NO CLUE that some were going to be bound together.

The text you refer to as warning against adding or taking away applies ONLY to Revelation itself, NOT the Bible.

So no matter how you look at it, you're quite wrong. Even though the canon may not have been codified until 15whatever, the Apocrypha was in the general Bible as far back as the Latin Vulgate in the 5th century.

Answer 4

no. jesus promised that his church would be guided and protected by the holy spirit forever and that not even the gates of hell would prevail against it. i see from your add ons you need to study history more thoroughly and from unbiased sources. you need to realise that the bible you read today was only made available because of the catholic church. the canon of scripture was determined at several councils and at each one was a reaffirmation of the first council. martin luther decided to follow the decision of the jewish council at jamnia which deleted the 7(not 15) books.these same jews rejected jesus and christianity. it may also be worth noting that jesus quotes from these deleted books 300+ times in the new testament. the catholic church is the earliest and infallible church safe guarded by the holy spirit. you accept the canon of the new testament to be the inspired word of god,that decision was made by the catholic church therefore this infallible decision affirms the infallibility of christs church. everything in the catholic church is based on scripture, you argue that the catholic church retaining the apocrapha shows the catholic church to be wrong, and so the man made decision of martin luther and the jewish council who where less qualified writers and interpretors than those in the septuagint is justified? even using all the time frames we see the catholic church is the oldest and thus goes by what the earliest church and christians believed and taught,traced back as far as jesus,not as far as martin luther some 1500 years later.

Answer 5

First of all, that verse was written about the prophesy in the Book of Revelation - not the whole Bible.

Second of all - The Book of Revelation was the first book written by the Apostle John, followed by I, II, III John, and then (last but not least) the Gospel of John. Did John add to the Scripture? Should we remove the Gospel of John from the Bible?

Third of all, the Book of Revelation was not accepted as Scripture until the 7th century. As late as the end of the 4th century the historian Eusebius mentions that the Book of Revelation was not considered Scripture by the majority of Christians.

Fourth of all, it was the Catholic Church that finally accepted the Book of Revelation; a book that was rejected by the early Church.

Answer 6

Did you know that Revelations was chronologically written before some of the other books in the Bible?

hmmmm, maybe the scripture was talking more about the book of Revelations itself - at least we all better hope so.

Answer 7

Have Protestants brought the curse of Rev 22:18 upon themselves by taking away from scripture? IE: the KJV?

Answer 8

It is very sad that, though most of us are Christians (used as a general term, as we all believe in Jesus Christ), there can be so much animosity or rivalry between the different beliefs.

Answer 9

I believe so. That's why I stick with the Reformed position of Sola Scriptura. I prefer to let God's Word speak on its own...to all people...without the chains of an elite clergy or magisterium claiming divine authority.

Answer 10

How about the curse that comes upon someone that makes them unable to use proper English. What DID you do??