is the bible a catholic document?

Answer 1

short answer is yes----smile and enjoy the day---smile more with all the different answers this one brings

Answer 2

Definitely not. The Catholics saved the Bible all through the centuries and had copies made from the then known manuscripts.
Until 1948, the oldest manuscripts of the Old Testament dated back to 895 A.D. In 1947, a shepard boy discovered some scrolls inside a cave West of the Dead Sea. These manuscripts dated between 100 B.C. and 100 A.D. Over the next decade, more scrolls were found in caves and the discovery became known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Every book in the Old Testament was represented in this discovery except Esther. Numerous copies of each book was discovered (For example, 25 copies of Deuteronomy).

While there are other items found among the Dead Sea Scrolls not currently in the Old Testament, the OT items that were found have few discrepancies to the versions from the Tenth Century. While not perfect, this is our best measuring stick to how accurate the Jewish scribes were throughout the centuries.

The New Testament is another story; maybe the best translation came from Kurdish Christians(as posted by a gentleman here) in Aramaic. Although many scholars think the new Testament was corrupted by the Catholics, there is little proof (according to the Aramaic manuscripts) to support this. The Catholic copiers did make some changes but not enough to change the true message.
Let's say the Catholics adopted the Bible and saved it from utter destruction but it's really a Jewish document.

Answer 3

Yes and no. The Bible is a 'collection of books' that was originally gathered by a 'council' of Archbishops and Bishops of the 'Catholic Church.' That group was divided during the 'schism' over the relationship between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and became the 'Holy Roman Catholic Church' and the Orthodox Catholic Church. Both of those eventually had many other churches form due to other disagreements on 'theology' ... so that what you know as 'The Bible' is only a TRANSLATION of what may have been a translation of a translation. The 'official' Catholic Bible in the U.S. is now the 'New American Bible' ... but when I was growing up during the 1950s it was the 'Revised Standard Bible.' The Protestant's used the 'King James Version' of the Bible and there were 'differences' in the number of books as well as the number of 'verses' and 'chapters' ... now there are MANY different translations of the Bible that are used and some are better than others, but none is PERFECT.
There is a 'funny mistake' in your question, though, cue to the fact that you omitted all capital letters when you typed it in. The Catholic Church (the Holy Roman Catholic Church) is a definite organization based on set 'beliefs' set down by the churches 'fathers.' The word 'catholic' doesn't refer to that organization, though ... it means 'universal' ... and it is that which has me saying that the Bible is a 'catholic' document. Not belonging to any one church, but belonging to 'the world, the universe' ... THINK ABOUT IT. You may be 'brilliant' by accident ... or was God speaking to you through your 'mistake' in grammar and spelling?

Answer 4

If you are asking whether us Catholics believe in the Bible, read the Bible, and adhere to the Bible, the answer is yes, yes, and yes. Many will tell you, falsely, that we don't. Why would I lie about it? Every Sunday in church, we hear a reading from the Old Testament, then the New Testament, and the Holy Gospel. The Bibles in our homes are treated with utmost respect and reverence. After all, it is the Word of God. When I serve in Church, the Bible is carried down the aisle with my arms raised HIGH. I have attended Bible classes, and have taught catechism classes in which we also taught out of the Bible. We, however, do not read the King James version of the Bible, but rather the Saint Joseph edition. A lot of pple will disagree with what I am saying, but I assure you, that in one way or another, all Catholic teachings stem from the Holy Bible. I urge anybody who disagrees with this, to look up some info about Scott Hahn, a former Presbyterian theologian and minister of whom is now Catholic. He could give a lot more insight as to the inner workings of the Catholic Church, why he turned to Catholicism, and he is also very good at explaining the common myths and misconceptions about the Catholic faith, often held by Protestants.

With peace in Christ-

Answer 5

The Catholic church is the oldest form of christianity that has it's history dating from the time of the apostles. The persecutions forced the Church underground but the blood of the martyrs kept it alive and growing. The bible was compiled by the Catholic church much later than the time of the apostles because of the persecutions wouldn't allow them the freedom to do it.The apostles were told by Christ to go and teach all nations, not to write books. The bible is much older than any protestant religion though. And the Catholic Church holds many traditions that are not in the bible, but are based on the bible.

Answer 6

The Bible itself is drawn from many sources, and was written before there was a catholic church. Much of the bible comes from Jewish and Byzantine documents. However, certain translations might be catholic.

The first English Catholic translation was the Douay-Rheims bible from 1582, and more recently the Jerusalem Bible and the New Jerusalem Bible have been accepted as Catholic translations. However, other translations, such as the King James Bible, are Protestant, and still others, like the New American Bible, have been cross-denominational.

Answer 7

No. The Catholic Church was not even started until 305/6 A.D.. All the Books of the Bible had long since been written before then. Jesus was a Rabi. And he said in Mathew 5:17-20 that he was not here to start a new religion, but to fix the Jewish one. Try reading some history books not made up by the Catholic church. So you can have truth.

Answer 8

It's a Christian document I believe. Catholics are Christians as well but the bible belongs to all denominations of Christianity.

Answer 9

The Bible?
Well... the Bible is used in many Christian denominations, and seeing how Catholicism is one of them, I guess it is. However, unlike Protestant Bibles, Catholic Bibles sometimes tend to have the Apocrypha in it, which are additional books such as Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, etc... (I, being a Protestant, do not have such books in my Bible).

And remember that the original books from the Bible are collected writings of prophets like Moses and apostles like Paul (who wrote most of New Testament). The original language the Bible came in is Hebrew.

Answer 10

Hello, Altius:

A Catholic will tell you they gave us the Bible. The truth is that Eusebius was ordered to translate 50 Bibles for Constantine the Great about 1/2 century before the pope ordered Jerome to translate the Latin Bible.

Interestingly, there were Kurdish Christians who had their Aramaic Bibles and were isolated from the world because they were in Muslim territory. Discovered by the British during the world wars, their Bible translation was not touched by Greek or Roman influence and is available by the late George Lamsa, a shepherd boy with a photographic memory. It pretty much follows the King James Bible.

Edit: A few extra thoughts: Eusebius was the instructor and curator of the Caserea's seminary in Syria. He would have translated from the Syriac, also known as the Peshitta in Aramaic. Matthew was known to have written in Aramaic and the disciples and Jesus spoke it. How can you get Latin from this??? Only from 4th Century translations.

Shalom, peace in Jesus, Ben Yeshiva

Answer 11

The Catholic church often claims responsibility for "giving the world the Bible. (See "The Faith of Millions" and "The Bible is a Cathlic Book"). It ususally points to a date of around 390AD for the determination of the Bible canon.

However, this is simply not true. 390AD is the date the Catholic church accepted the BIble, not the date it was either written, or agreed upon. Consider the following sources:

326. Athanasius, bishop at Alexandria, mentions all of the New Testament books.

315-386. Cyril, bishop at Jerusalem, gives a list of all New Testament books except Revelation.

270. Eusebius, bishop at Caesarea, called the Father of ecclesiastical history, gives an account of the persecution of Emperor Diocletian whose edict required that all churches be destroyed and the Scriptures burned. He lists all the books of the New Testament. He was commissioned by Constantine to have transcribed fifty copies of the Bible for use of the churches of Constantinople.

185-254. Origen, born at Alexandria, names all the books of both the Old and New Testaments.

165-220. Clement, of Alexandria, names all the books of the New Testament except Philemon, James, 2 Peter and 3 John. In addition we are told by Eusebius, who had the works of Clement, that he gave explanations and quotations from all the canonical books.

160-240. Turtullian, contemporary of Origen and Clement, mentions all the New Testament books except 2 Peter, James and 2 John.

135-200. Irenaeus, quoted from all New Testament books except Philemon, Jude, James and 3 John.

100-147. Justin Martyr, mentions the Gospels as being four in number and quotes from them and some of the epistles of Paul and Revelation.

Besides the above, the early church fathers have handed down in their writings quotations from all the New Testament books so much so that it is said that the entire New Testament can be reproduced from their writings alone.

Therefore, it is clear that the Bible existed before the Catholic church did. How could the Bible be a product of the Catholic church? If the BIble is the product of the Catholic church, then:

1. Why does it condemn clerical dress? (Matt. 23:5-6).
2. Why does it teach against the adoration of Mary? (Luke 11:27-28).
3. Why does it show that all Christians are priests? (1 Pet. 2:5,9).
4. Why does it condemn the observance of special days? (Gal. 4:9-11).
5. Why does it teach that all Christians are saints? (1 Cor. 1:2).
6. Why does it condemn the making and adoration of images? (Ex. 20:4-5).
7. Why does it teach that baptism is immersion instead of pouring? (Col. 2:12).
8. Why does it forbid us to address religious leaders as "father"? (Matt. 23:9).
9. Why does it teach that Christ is the only foundation and not the apostle Peter? (1 Cor. 3:11).
10. Why does it teach that there is one mediator instead of many? (1 Tim. 2:5).
11. Why does it teach that a bishop must be a married man? (1 Tim. 3:2, 4-5).
12. Why is it opposed to the primacy of Peter? (Luke 22:24-27).
13. Why does it oppose the idea of purgatory? (Luke 16:26).
14. Why is it completely silent about infant baptism, instrumental music in worship, indulgences, confession to priests, the rosary, the mass, and many other things in the Catholic Church?

A fair investigation into the origin of the Bible will find it is not a Catholic document