Why is Catholics' hubris so great they believe they compiled the Bible???

Question

Wasn't it the Greek Church? Was the NT written in Latin???

That sounds like a load of papal bull to me...

Watch your blasphemy, MZjakes!

Answer 1

Umm The Catholic church is a latin church. Services were still in LATIN until the 20th century. The Vatican is in Rome.Which is in Italy. Which is where latin is from.

The New Testamant first written in Latin- Roman Catholic
The New Testament first written in Ancient Greek- Greek Orthodox
Thats according to your own logic.


That sounds like a bad, bigoted question to me.

Answer 2

The Church was one church and many churches. Every major city had a Church: Alexandria, Damascus, Byzantium/Constantinople, Jerusalem, Rome. They managed their own affairs, concurring only when doctrinal issues needed settling.

The Old Testament was inherited from the Jews. More specifically, Christians read and studied the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures dating from about 250 BCE. They had no hand in composing it.

The New Testament was written by different Christians in various locations, principally as a safeguard against forgetting what Christianity was about as the apostles began to die and Christ delayed his return. They were not so much "scripture" as best-sellers of Christian literature. Then theologians and apologists started making lists of their favorites, and Christians far removed from the first generations began to think of these books as inspired, like the Jewish Bible. When Christianity was legalized in the Fourth Century CE, doctrinal needs required an official ruling from a council representing all Christian churches. This created the canonical New Testament, which at the time was entirely in Greek, the common language of the Roman Empire.

After the Western and Eastern halves of the Roman Empire became estranged, an official Latin translation of the scriptures was commisioned by the bishop of Rome. This was composed from both the Greek and the Hebrew, and it became the official Bible of the Western church for the next thousand years. Folks in the East still used the Greek, a language that disappeared from the West.

But it was essentially the same Bible, compiled by the one and only universal Church. The schisms came later. Since the Protestant Reformation would not occur until the 16th Century, the canonical Christian Bible was essentially produced by the Catholic ("universal") Church. It's a matter of chronological order, not doctrine.

There was the matter of the "Textus Receptus". This was a scholarly but amateur compilation by Erasmus from several worn-out manuscripts aquired from the Orthodox Church. The manuscripts were only a few centuries old, much more recent than the documents Jerome used to make the Latin Vulgate translation, and a few interpolations had crept into the text over the centuries. But the point was to produce an "original" free from the direct control of Rome, which was very protective of its doctrine against spurious and incompetent interpretations of the more "confusing" parts of scripture. The TR was then translated into vernacular langages that anyone literate could read. This helped fuel the Reformation by providing biblical references untouched by Rome.

Protestants didn't "make" the Bible. They didn't even have the tools to critically evaluate their sources. They only wanted to pry it loose from the Catholic magisterium, and succeeded. The actual number of disputed verses is small, although there are some people on both "sides" who will fight over anything in order to demonize their adversaries. The fact is, THE Church made the Bible what it is. The specific language you read it in is incidental.

Answer 3

Modern translations of the Bible are versions of the translations by Saint Jerome, who translated it into Greek from Aramaic. The Vulgate Latin translations were indeed compiled by early Roman Catholics. (At the time of Saint Jerome the Greek churches weren't in schism with the rest of the Church.)
The New Testament was orally passed down and written in Aramaic several hundred years after the Resurrection.
Up until the Protestant Reformation there was no distinction between the "Catholic" church and the "Christian" church. Martin Luther was a Roman Catholic (an Augustinian friar) and Henry VIII was born Catholic also.
Why is the hubris of some Evangelicals (certainly not all) so great that they need to continually slam Catholics? The bigotry and ignorance of some of these supposed "Christians" is really upsetting to so many of us.

Answer 4

The Greek and Roman churches had not yet split at that time . The original writings that made up the bible were in Greek , Latin , Hebrew , and Amariac .
The papal bull is just a lack of knowledge on your part . Everybody has two choices before asking questions . Either make a thorough study first , or make a fool of yourself .

Answer 5

Greek was the common language of the people in the Roman Empire in the 1st century.

Most people were probably (at least) bilingual speaking Greek and their native language.

Jesus was probably trilingual in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek. Remember he spent part of his childhood in Greek-speaking Egypt.

The New Testament was written the Greek, the language that most people could read, by the early Christians.

This same Christian Church has referred to itself as the “Catholic Church” at least since 107 C.E. (about 10 years after the last book of the New Testament was written), when the Greek term "Katholikos" (meaning universal) appears in the Letter of St. Ignatius of Antioch to the Smyrnaeans:

"Wherever the bishop appear, there let the multitude be; even as wherever Christ Jesus is, there is the Catholic Church."

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/ignatius-smyrnaeans-hoole.html

We do not know how long they had been using the term "Catholic" before it was included in this letter.

All of this was long before the Council of Nicea and the Nicene Creed from 325 C.E. which states, "We believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church."

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07644a.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 6

The people who first officially compiled the Bible were church fathers in the 4th century who held a series of seven council in Nicea. These were ecumenical councils, meaning that they were attended by representatives of both the Eastern (Roman) and Western (Orthodox) church.

So both groups have an equal claim to be the ones who compiled the New Testament.

Answer 7

The catholic cult didn't exist when the Bible was compiled. God compiled the Bible through Christians. And the catholics certainly didn't write it. God gave us the Bible through the Jewish people. God is responsible for it, and He used Jews and Christians, not catholics.

Catholics murdered anyone found owning a Bible.

Catholics are not saved and are not Christians. Catholics believe a false gospel of works that leads to eternal hell (Galatians 1).

Bible teachers that said the Vatican and the catholic cult are an antichrist: John Bunyan, John Huss, John Wycliffe, John Calvin, William Tyndale, John Knox, Thomas Bacon, John Wesley, Charles Spurgeon, Samuel Cooper, John Cotton, and Jonathan Edwards

Answer 8

At the time the NT was compiled, there was only 1 christian church which later became known as the Roman Catholic Church.

Answer 9

You're half right. Constantine assembled bishops from around the Mediterranean in Nicea in 325, including the future Cathloic and Orthodox bishops to assemble the bible and establish an agreed upon creed (later called the Nicean Creed). Differences at that council eventually led to the split betwene the Catholic and Orthodox churches.

Answer 10

The Bible is at least 3500 years old. But it's truth is the same today, yesterday, and forever. The Catholic church hasn't compiled it or modeled itself after its Testimony.