I hear a lot of "Christians" bashing Catholics, and frankly it's quite sickening, so let me ask you something

Question

If the Catholics hadn't put together the bible and spread it through Europe, exactly what religion do you think you "Christians" would be right now?

Please try to stay within the realm of reality as you answer this.

Answer 1

It's true that Catholicism was the only viable brand of Christianity for about 14 centuries. There were other brands in the earliest centuries CE - the so-called "gnostic" sects - but they were all suppressed by the coalescing authority of the Church. It's also true, therefore, that all other brands of Christianity today are really offshoots of Catholicism - "heresies," if you will. They claim to base their authority on the Bible; but they wouldn't have even had the Bible as an authority had its books not been selected, edited, canonized, and preserved in the Catholic Church. There was no "going back to the beginning" in 1517. Martin Luther, in nailing his theses to the door of the cathedral, was simply another heretic with extraordinary courage and willpower, who criticized the existing Church from his own POV, and invented his own religion using its terminology.

Answer 2

For much of the past 2000 years, the Catholic Church has expended very much effort trying to suppress the Bible. It did not put it together, either. The Bible was being spread by Christians, who were, at the same time, being persecuted by the Catholic Church, even long before the Catholic Church even considered putting their rubber stamp of approval on the content of the Bible.

If you want to know the truth, don't restrict your reading to only Catholic history.

Answer 3

You must be speaking of Protestants and Catholics. LOL you can't solve this in Yahoo answers. The Catholics and Protestants have been at it for century's. I as a Pentacostal Christian, believe that you are saved by Grace and by a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, not by deed alone. Anyway, I also believe that I don't need to confess my sins to a man to be forgiven, I have a direct line to The Lord God. I don't believe Catholics are going to hell, I just don't believe the right's that they do. Salvation is a personal choice, although a Church is the Body of Christ, Salvation is a one on one experience. Anyway.

Answer 4

Your questions usually inspire me to think about my faith. Usually I enjoy reading all the answers. Today, your question is no different, but I am sad to read some of the answers. As a Catholic... some of the responses just made me sad.

I tried to find a website that wasn't biased about the history of the bible and it was hard to do. But I did find this link that was very interesting:

http://www.gentles.info/BibleHistory/Index_History.html

I noticed that in the answers I read, noone really answered the question, about what religion would anyone be.... they just complained...

Answer 5

In America we would be on a closer path to the truth. For we would follow Native American Indian ways and values. Most think these are Pagan but have no clue or only read white man books to think this way.

Native Indians are closer to Judaism than Jews are. And there is evidence that the Tribe of Dan became the Natives. Plus few realize that the Natives knew G_Ds name long before white man came to USA.

G_D or the Great Spirit or Grandfather = YHWH (YeHoWaH)

Answer 6

You need to learn some history. The Catholic church kept the Bible from the masses. Ever hear of Wycliffe? He was put to death by the Romanists for printing and distributing the Bible to common people, in their language. Luther was the first one to print the Bible in German, the language of his country. Christianity was growing and spreading long before Constantine created the Roman state church.

Answer 7

Check your history. The catholic church was the biggest opponent of the Bible being translated into english. They did not want the common man having the Bible and being able to read it on their own. The reason why is clear The power of the catholic church has declined ever since.

All that being said I have nothing against Catholics.

Answer 8

I was born and raised a Catholic but there are some of the church doctrines that are cause for concern when compared to scripture. Infallibility of the pope, assumption of Mary, the saints (all true believers are saints according to scripture), pagan symbols (Halos (the sun really) Statues etc), celibacy of the clergy.....etc. A lot of pomp and circumstance if you know what I mean.
These issues caused me to rethink my faith and I determined through much study that my belief should focus on Jesus Christ and Him only. He is the way, the truth and the life.

Answer 9

Actually, the Catholics simply took a lot of texts that had been circulating for centuries and cannonized SOME of them. Others were simply discarded.

Answer 10

The Popes claim to be in a line of succession from Peter.

Absurd as that claim may be it unites them as one body through history.

The Roman Catholic Church has been responsible for unimaginable torments, tortures, persecutions, malice, hatred, cruelties, murders and burnings against people who were prepared to endure such very great extremities for their faith in Jesus Christ and Him alone.

But Jesus Christ expressly said, For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.

Fox's Book of Martyrs gives multitudes of detailed, documented and proven examples and was compiled while the very Roman Catholics were in ascendancy and would have taken every measure to disprove it if they could.

Further the Roman Catholic Church forbade the reading of the Bible, refused the Bible in the mother tongue of the country, took every measure to persecute and prevent the translation of and circulation of it to the ordinary man in a language understandable by him and burnt those who were caught promoting it or expounding it.

God's only word to us by which we may discover the only means of salvation was forbidden and denied to people on pain of torture and a horrible death by the Roman Catholic Church. It is clear to see that that is the Devil's work.

The misery and suffering and murder that the Roman Catholic Church has spread through Europe is incalculable and well documented and attested to.

Even today, well after the freedom of the Reformation and the free availability of the Bible in most countries and their consequent loss of power and control, The Roman Catholic Church seeks to pervert the reading of it by claiming only they can interpret it and by teaching their own damnable doctrines along with it.

Clearly then the Roman Catholic Church is Antichrist and the present Pope claims his allegiance to his antichristian forbears.

You put the word "Christians" in inverted commas. It is you who has inverted the word and all may fairly decide just who is Christian and who is not once the evidence is admitted for them to consider.

That is the very sad and abominable reality to which my answer testifies.