Why use the Bible if you hate Catholics?

Question

Catholic Bishops authorized the canonization of the New Testament as we know it. Why use it if you don't accept our Church as legitimate?

Answer 1

Very good question (Catholic here).

Whether Protestants want to admit it or not, the canon of scripture they have today was compiled and approved by the Catholic Church around the 4th century. They are using a Catholic bible! Isn't it silly then, that they continue in their protest, yet derive their teachings from a canon of scripture that came from us?

Answer 2

Well, first, it wasn't Catholic Bishops. There wasn't a "Catholic Church" when certain books became Canonized. They call them Church Fathers and yes they held the Bishop title... but back then, that didn't mean they were Catholic (Roman Catholic Bishops)... as there was no church during that time. Greek Orthodox was also around then and used the same writings. As well as the 7 churches Paul wrote too (strange, if "Catholic" was in such wide use then, I would think Paul, out of all of them, would have used that word.... at least once..... but it's absent). And they VOTED on it.... this does not sound like someone in authority claiming something is Scripture when it's being voted on. lol


But, ya know, this always struck me as funny. I know a lot of Catholics who talk like this..... yet they don't have a bit of a problem taking from Jewish ideas and making them their own.... the Old Test. It's ALL Jewish writings... they aren't Catholic.

Answer 3

Good question!
Many Christian folks fail to see that there would be no Bible without the early Catholics.
While very many Catholic leaders projected evil through the Middle ages and beyond, they did a pretty good job of compiling the first Bible. Today the Catholic Church admit their follies through early church history...the Catholic Church have come a long way; only God knows how they managed to survive after all their follies.

Answer 4

Ironically, it was the catholic church that authorized the collection of original scriptures into one book, the old and new testament. The church throughout the centuries has adopted many ritualistic practices that are deemed as necessary for one's faith, but are not acceptable to those that believe that mere faith is necessary. The latter group tends to think that the written word only (and too often, reciting it and agreeing with it) is the only thing necessary for salvation - the very thing given to them by the catholic church.

Answer 5

I do not understand why there is so much prejudice towards Catholics from "Protestants"... while there are doctrinal differences, (just like between the many Protestant churches), we believe in the same Savior, the same God. We should focus on what unites us, and not let the enemy divide us. It hurt me greatly when an organization I belonged to stated that Catholics are not Christians. I immediately resigned. Of course Catholics are Christians! Did people only start being Christians when the church split?
But it also hurt me when the people of my mom's Catholic church did not want the non-Catholics at her funeral (me) to take communion.
I do not hate Catholics, they are my brothers and sisters in Christ, and I hope they consider me the same.

Answer 6

The term "canon" is used to describe the books that are divinely inspired and therefore belong in the Bible. The difficult aspect of determining the Biblical canon is that the Bible does not give us a list of the books that belong in the Bible. Determining the canon was a process, first by Jewish rabbis and scholars, and then later by early Christians. Ultimately, it was God who decided what books belonged in the Biblical canon. A book of Scripture belonged in the canon from the moment God inspired its writing. It was simply a matter of God convincing His human followers which books should be included in the Bible.

Answer 7

If you hate Catholics then you must hate the Bible that you clasp so close to your bosom, because it was the Catholics who came up with the first written Bible.

Christ sent His Apostles with the authority to teach all nations, and never gave them any command of writing the Bible. And the Apostles went forth and preached everywhere, and planted the Church of God throughout the earth, but never thought of writing.

The first word written was by St. Matthew (a Catholic), and he wrote for the benefit of a few individuals. He wrote the Gospel about seven years after Christ left this earth, so that the Church of God, established by Christ, existed seven years before a line was written of the New Testament.

St. Mark (also a Catholic) wrote about ten years after Christ left this earth; St. Luke (another Catholic) about twenty-five years, and St. John (still another Catholic) about sixty-three years after Christ had established the Church of God. St. John wrote the last portion of the Bible -- the Book of the Apocalypse (or Revelation as the Protestants call it) -- about sixty-five years after Christ had left this earth and the Church of God had been established. The Catholic religion had existed sixty-five years before the Bible was completed, before it was written.

Gnostic, the only reason the Catholic church has survived this long is because it is the only church founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ and the only church that will survive all the assaults of hell till the end of time. All other man-made religions and denominations that are built on sand will sink and fall but not the Roman Catholic church. Thank you.

Answer 8

I don't know what is..''canonization''...of New Testament..

I don't hate catholics, and I don't hate egiptians...
I like catholics.They are very polite.They have a Pope as leader...of a state.Even if the state is little...I saw Pope in a good magazine..of good paper..I love Pope because he loves God..any priest loves God..I love even the enemies...why should I hate catholics?Only the students ..could object..they better object to Darwin..

Answer 9

They have strayed long away from the truth for the sake and love of money. I believe the Catholic church was once following the teachings of scripture. They have their own Bible anyways and have not dictated over the one I use.

And for Labgrrrl: Baptists are not Protestants like many think. They have been there along side the Catholic church since Christ. Look it up.

Answer 10

Christians as a whole are shockingly ignorant of their own history, and really don't care that the King James, and all the books even slightly based upon it, are themselves translations of the authorized Vulgate.

As there is no complete Greek and Hebrew equivalent (individual books exist, but they are not the basis for all the other bibles) the Vulgate is the definitive Bible.

However, many Christians are just too dumb to realize their church, unless Orthodox, is based upon Catholicism.