The Roman Catholic Church?

Question

The Roman Catholic Church made the new testament of the bible by adding and censoring past letters and books.

Did you know?

I know this for a fact

I studied it in school and I saw it in the History channed www.history.com

Answer 1

I am Catholic and I agree some stuff are not ment to be known

Answer 2

Well, lets think about this. If I compile anything from a set of books, then I must include and exclude. So if I exclude then I am censoring. I may even love and agree with what I left out, but the act of compiling is a form of censorship. This occurs in any anthology.

Now editing is a different issue and is far more complex. To say the Church did anything would imply a centralized power or authority that has never existed in Catholicism, but to say some Church people did edit things would be factually correct. For example, it was Polycarp amongst others who were the redactors of John's Gospel. So the very act of bringing it into literary form is again a form of editing and choosing. Likewise, we have 400,000 variant passages from ancient texts of the New Testament. In the strictest sense, we really do not know what the original documents said and it cannot be known either at this point. That problem of course is not unique to the bible, the same problem exists for anyone who reads Plato or Josephus or the Didache. Ancient copiests were known to purposely alter texts both in translation and because they tried to improve them. The warning in the book of Revelations to neither add nor detract from the book had nothing to do with God telling people not to make changes. It was the standard copyright warning of the time. Since books were not printed, but rather copied and forwarded by private people, authors could not control the integrity of their texts. They put threatening texts into them.

So yes the Church censored in the sense that it excluded the Didache even though it is almost certainly an apostolic document, not because it believed it was false, but because of why the bible was formed. It was formed for proclaimation in the liturgy and the Didache really is closer to instructions to ministers than anything else. And yes, the books were edited. Every single copiest edited the texts for hundreds of years resulting in literally hundreds of thousands of variant passages any of them could in fact be the correct original passages and in some cases none of them are for specific passages. The simplest and one of the most famous is the Johannine Comma, which you could do a web search on.

This is more of a problem for those who believe in sola scriptura than those who are Catholic or Orthodox.

Answer 3

The history channel is not the authorative source. It is only a TELEVISION SHOW!

The Catholic Church compiled the entire canon of scripture because Catholics wrote the new testament, and the church alone was given the authority by God to do so.

Read whatever you want, but you wouldn't even have a Bible if it wasn't for the authority, good work, and divine inspiration of the Catholic Church.

Did you know?

Answer 4

The Catholic church made the *first* New Testament by compiling the books that the theological experts of the time believed were most likely to be true and leaving out books they felt were apocryphal (like the Gospel of Mary Magdalene). They couldn't possibly have included every bit of writing about Christ, by then. Pretty much all other Christian bibles come from the Catholic Bible. Yes, I knew that.

Answer 5

Seek some knowledge , your ignorant.



Protestants being thus impious enough to make liars of Jesus Christ, of the Holy Ghost, and of the Apostles, need we wonder if they continually slander Catholics, telling and believing worse absurdities about them than the heathens did? What is more absurd than to preach that Catholics worship stocks and stones for gods; set up pictures of Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and other saints, to pray to them, and put their confidence in them; that they adore a god of bread and wine; that their sins are forgiven by the priest, without repentance and amendment of life; that the pope or any other person can give leave to commit sin, or that for a sum of money the forgiveness of sins can be obtained ? To these and similar absurdities and slanders, we simply answer: "Cursed is he who believes in such absurdities and falsehoods, with which Protestants impiously charge the children of the Catholic Church. All those grievous transgressions are another source of their reprobation."

"But what faith can we learn from these false teachers when, in consequence of separating from the Church, they have no rule of faith? ... How often Calvin changed his opinions! And, during his life, Luther was constantly contradicting himself: on the single article of the Eucharist, he fell into thirty-three contradictions! A single contradiction is enough to show that they did not have the Spirit of God. "He cannot deny Himself" (II Timothy 2:13). In a word, take away the authority of the Church, and neither Divine Revelation nor natural reason itself is of any use, for each of them may be interpreted by every individual according to his own caprice ... Do they not see that from this accursed liberty of conscience has arisen the immense variety of heretical and atheistic sects? ... I repeat: if you take away obedience to the Church, there is no error which will not be embraced.

Source(s):
Against the Reformers
Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible online

Additional Reading

St Alphonsus Mary De Liguori (1696-1787)
Bishop and Doctor of the Church

Answer 6

I'm sure it says that Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life in their Bible too! So, in the grand scheme of things, does it really matter? The door to heaven goes through the Son. All Christian Bibles are very clear on that, including the Catholic translation.

Answer 7

Yes

Answer 8

very true...the Church came before the bible

Answer 9

"I believe it because I was it on television.", man that's funny.

Just because the Books of the Bible were written, compiled, edited, etc, doesn't mean they can't be Divinely Inspired.

Why does this shock you?

Answer 10

Do you know this for a fact or is it a spurious comment you are carelessly throwing about.