Wasn’t it the Catholic Church that was responsible for the Bible being written?

Question

Who then gave us the Bible? I found these verses .....What do you think?



2 Timothy 3:16-17
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

2 Peter 1:19-21
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

Answer 1

Hello, Native Bear:

I ran across you question 20 minutes down the line. Let me take a moment to see if you resolve your questions, don't want to take time in responding.....hang in there a moment. Yes you do, Good!

Many responders were partially correct, but Catholics have painted a tainted picture of history and many believe it.

First of all, there is a church in Rome, Paul wrote to it, and it's in the Bible, but they never claimed the power from Peter until the eighth century. A couple centuries earlier, think it was in 536 the Greek emperor Justinian declared the Catholic Church head of the churches.

Justinian read the Bible, and summoned the pope to Greece (Actualy the Byzantine Empire at that time). The pope and he didn't agree on theology, so he had the pope imprisoned for two years. Enough on that.
A forged document called the "'Donation of Constantine" emerged later (Copies are posted on the Internet). It was written in contemporary Greek not known at Constantine's time and Called the capitol Constantinople, but at the time of Constantine, Bythnius (sp?) was it's name. Anyhow, that fake document called the Pope VICARIUS FILII DEI and suggested the pope was Peter's successor. Enough on that lie.

Now, let us go back in history to a famous gentleman called Eusebius. He is a famous historian--many of his works are preserved--a curator of the Caesarean Library, Bible instructor and theology teacher.

Eusebius was not Roman Catholic, but a member of God's widespread (catholic) church, and Ephesus (Not Rome) or other Asian spots were where church meetings discussed major problems.

Eusebius researched his library and found what epistles were quoted in sermons by early church bishops. He outlined what we know as the New Testament. Constantine the Great ordered Eusebius to translate 50 Greek Bibles.

When Eusebius was old, he had an admirer named Jerome, located in Asia Minor. Jerome added Eusebius to his name and became Jerome Eusebius.

Still with me, Native Bear? Let me upload this.

OK., Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire, and after subduing Rome and establishing the church there, he returned to Greece. The Greeks were at that time Church headquarters--Just ask them. It would be 200 years later they would claim leadership.

But Jerome translated a Latin Bible for the Western church after the pattern of Eusebius. As responders above noted, and who echo Reformers of the 1,500, Rome instead of giving us the Bible, horded their Latin translation and KILLED TRANSLATORS, BURNED BIBLES, an burned as heretics those who preach in languages other than Latin.

That means they would have killed all the disciples, and Jesus, too because the Greek Septuagent was the world's Bible then, and Hebrew and Aramaic were other popular languages.

If any Disciple spoke Latin at all, it had to be an unknown tongue they were speaking, and the hearer had to understand Latin.

Recently the Benedictine Pope told his subordinates to start preaching at important events in Latin. Yes, suppose he's trying to save face for their horrible past.

Rome is identified as the Abomination of Desolation in a last-day Bible code. You need read this to strengthen your faith in God's Word over mans because they are making a come back. http://abiblecode.tripod.com

Blessings, One-Way

Answer 2

The Catholic Church is NOT responsible for the Bible being written at all. All that is contained in the Bible was written long before the Catholic Church even existed. They were responsible for determining the final canon of scripture, or the scriptures that we see in the Bible and their order. They made the final determination regarding which books should be included in the New Testament, out of the many religious writings floating around, and determined, to some degree, what our modern Old Testament would look like.
The scriptures, however, were written by holy men of God before the Catholic Church was ever established.

Answer 3

they did no longer write the entire bible. The previous testomony is nicely the Hebrew Septuagint (from what I understand, it truly isn't the popular-day Jewish 'bible'). many of the books that are in the unique OT from the bible are easily quoted and stated in the process the NT (a number of those books have been bumped off by way of Protestants, yet this is yet another tale-- er, argument). As for the hot testomony, sure, you're able to be able to desire to assert that "Catholics" have been the authors of the hot testomony, through fact the Catholic Church is the unique and universal Christian Church (which each and every and all of the apostles have been area of in the beginning up whilst Jesus everyday it-- and because they have been if truth be told Catholic and wrote the books/letters secure in the bible then you definately could desire to assert that technically Catholics wrote it). They have been those responsible for wearing on the sacred custom everyday by way of Christ and passing on the solid information to destiny generations. ultimately, through fact of alterations in canon and disputes between the church homes, the Church desperate that they could desire to place mutually an respected Canon. That canon became the bible. The bible wasn't revealed to be the authority on the be conscious of God. It became revealed to be extra of a 'guidebook' in coaching and demonstrating the be conscious of God (to coach that Jesus became the Messiah). It became meant to get everybody on an identical website so there wasn't any extra issues....for sure that did no longer artwork out extremely how they meant now did it? The Church holds directly to many different sacred writings that weren't secure in the Bible, yet those writings reference many of the writings of the Apostles that are in the Bible. those writings are from a number of the wonderful instructors the Church ever had, and that they even shield on line libraries so which you would be able to bypass study and notice only how the early Church Fathers interpreted scripture and precisely what they believed. My suggestion to you is to seem up and study the historic previous of the Bible; it truly is a real eye-opener.

Answer 4

that is a fallacy. the catholic church just builds that image--just like the pope whom they all hail as a HOLY man of God. Well, on that matter, I would say that that is blasphemy because no one is holy except for the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. And to think that Mary is venerated too much and even leveled with Christ! What a false notion. Ooops! I'm getting farther. Haha! The Scriptures are written because of the inspiration from God. The catholic church just took the first hold on them. Peace!

Answer 5

The Catholic Church had absolutely nothing to do with the Bible being written.
One reason?
The Bible was complete around 100 A.D.
The Catholic Church came into being around 325 A.D.
A second reason:
The Catholic Church has done more to hide, even destroy, the Bible.
They held the Inquisition.
For centuries they insisted the Bible stay in Latin when Latin had long become a dead language.
The Bible was put together by a total of 40 Jewish men.
They lived at different times.
Writing started about 1500 B.C. and continued till 98 A.D.
It was originally maintained by the Jews, then the Christian Congregation.

Answer 6

The church didn't write the Bible (though they may have changed bits of it). The Bible is a collection of books: the old testament is a collection of adapted bronze age myths and legends and the new testament is stories written about Jesus (approx. 100 years after he died) with some extra bits. These books were written by men, thousands of years ago; they were not faxed down from heaven. Also, just because the bible says it is from god, doesn't mean that it is. It would say that wouldn't it?

Answer 7

No, not exactly.

It WAS, however, responsible for the Bible being compiled with the order and composition that we now know.

The Church decided which books were inspired of God (i.e. aligned with the Dogma of the Church) and which ones were spurrious (i.e. contradicted the Dogma).

Fundies who tell you otherwise usually can't quote any sources.

This is why Bible verses must be taken in context and with a grain of salt. If you interpret them too literally, you're bound to fall into dogma.

EDIT: To the guy above me, it's the "Council of Nicea", sometimes called the "Nicene Councile", because "Nicene" is the adjective to describe something "from or of Nicea", just like "American" is the adjective for something "from or of America". But yes, it's true, this council is where the bulk of the decisions regarding the composition of the Bible were made.

Answer 8

Hello NativeBear, the roman Catholic church claims almost everything in Christianity's to be or have been done by them, but, why they do not claim to be the Lord's real killers? for example, or that they forbade for centuries the Reading of the holy scriptures and excommunicated those who dared to disobeyed their prohibitions ?
anyways, to answer you question, if you check this page it will clarify your doubts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgata
there you'll find the complete answer. at least for this matter.
and by the way, the word BIBLE is the plural of the word BIBLION, which is a greek word meaning book.

Answer 9

The Roman Catholic Church contends that its origin is the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ in approximately 30 A.D. The Catholic Church proclaims itself to be the Church that Jesus Christ died for, the Church that was established and built by the Apostles. Is that the true origin of the Catholic Church? On the contrary. Even a cursory reading of the New Testament will reveal that the Catholic Church does not have its origin in the teachings of Jesus, or His apostles. In the New Testament, there is no mention of the papacy, worship / adoration of Mary (or the immaculate conception of Mary, the perpetual virginity of Mary, the assumption of Mary, or Mary as co-redemptrix and mediatrix), petitioning saints in Heaven for their prayers, apostolic succession, the ordinances of the church functioning as sacraments, infant baptism, confession of sin to a priest, purgatory, indulgences, or the equal authority of church tradition and Scripture.

Answer 10

They did decide which books to include - and then Luther removed 7 of them hundreds of years later. So Robert K, you should throw away your whole Bible, since its contents were decided by the Catholic Church.