Question about Cathoics to protestants concerning the bible - thats a mouthfull?

Question

Catholics do not believe the bible alone.

Hope that makes sense.

So when you say Catholics do things that are not in the bible you are absolutly correct.

The bible was not formed fully until the council of Cathage in 400ad. That means for aroun 5 lifetimes the church existed on something else.

That is Church doctrine and traditions that Jesus created and the apostles put together. The same people put the bible together and were led by the holy spirit.

So what makes people think bible ALONE is acurate ?

When you understand the early teachers and the bible you would have the truth!

If you only have the bible you have some truth but not the real means to interpret it.

think of it like a first century concordance explaining all the hard parts - wouldnt that be excellent??

Yet Martin Luther even took parts out of the bible that he didnt like- Did god change his mind from 400 ad to 1520 AD, did the holy spirit say "ooops I didnt mean that"

Answer 1

The bible (NT) wasn't written until a couple of hundred years after JC died. I think that the stories were a tad skewed by the time it was written.

Just think about our own history. The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently tried to convince everyone that the holocaust never happened. We have personal accounts and video of that happening. Just think about how bad news reporting was when there was no video and the majority of the people couldn't read.

Answer 2

The Bible WAS "fully formed" prior to the Council of Nicea (I gather that's what you meant to reference, instead of Carthage.) The SOLE purpose of the Council was to REAFFIRM the established position of the church that the books making up what became today's NT were the only inspired scriptures. In doing so, the Council harshly refuted two things:

1) Gnosticism and the accompanying "gnostic gospels" being passed around -- the Council knew these "gospels" were not authoritative or authentic, since they represented new thought;

2) Arianism -- a man named Arius taught heretical doctrine, which lead many away from the true, established teachings of the Bible. The MOST heretical teaching was that Jesus was not God in the flesh -- Arius taught that Jesus was just a man. Jehovah's Witnesses are actually modern-day Arians.

The concept of "sola scriptura" is Biblically sound. The RCC's teaching that its extra-Biblical writings represent the "traditions" of the Apostles is easily demonstrated to be a false claim. I challenge you to read the writings of the EARLY church writers (i.e. first century and early second century), such as Polycarp. You will find NONE -- and I repeat -- NONE -- of the RCC's doctrines. Mariology; transsubstantiation; Papal infallibility; infant baptism; a separate priesthood; original sin; etc. -- these were ALL concepts that were totally foreign to the early Church.

So actually, I will turn your statement around and point it right back at YOU: if you understand the early teachers and the Bible you would have the truth!

Answer 3

Catholic Hermeneutics give great liberty to the mystical interpretation of the Bible and borrowed much from Rome.

Jesus Christ broke many traditions, a rebel of sorts to Judaism. Why would He want to establish traditions that are attributed to Catholicism, Protestant and others as seen in evidence today?

Answer is, He doesn't.

Answer 4

The catholics came along 300 years after the death of Jesus and with the support of Constantine, spreading their form of Christianity. They also arranged the books of the bible into one big book (and badly at that, with books that were not in keeping with the rest of the bible). Well, big whoop- here's a shiny badge. Without catholicism, we would still have had the books of the bible, so Christians owe nothing to the catholic church. So grow up and stop the childish "we-did-it-first" questions.

Answer 5

When a religious principle is stated, Catholics and Protestants ask two different questions.

Protestants ask: "where is that found in the Bible?" whereas Catholics ask: "what does the Church teach?"

The Catholic question certainly encompasses the Bible, but includes more.

So it is a matter of where each respectively appeals to its authority.




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Answer 6

its like this
Jesus never wrote the bible

His apostles never edited the bible
they wrote different notes, letter to each other, and some of them which was found was put together to form the new testament.

And the New Testament has many versions, that is each editors put in what they want and removed what they did not want.

There are many many writings which are not incorporated.
What all Jesus did cannot be said and written down to follow something called Catholic or pentecostal.

Have an open mind about this subject, you can never understand when you are narrow minded.

Answer 7

'a first century concordance explaining all the hard parts' = Holy Spirit's guidance in studying to show yourself approved. Without the rebirth, 'born again' in the Spirit, you cannot, nor will you ever have eyes to see. What you will have is just an intellectual knowledge.

Answer 8

catholics and protestants will never unite especially in the area of idolatry, like worshipping idols and virgin mary. and try to look at how the catholic church changed the ten commandments from exodus 20. the catholic church made its own ten commandments, knowing that the ten commandments should only be from GOD. have u ever thought that it is blasphemy?

Answer 9

Lets always remember in the section, it is opinion not fact, not really even tho I am a Jesus lover, that was my choice to believe in it. trying to pin down to the right religion is like saying "red is the best color" How dumb, we all have choices in life.

Answer 10

everything of God is accurate....that includes the bible too, but you have to believe in it with all of your heart....if not then you question everything else, including God...