devout Catholics, have you ever wondered what kind of historical "facts" non-Catholic Christians read/heard?

Question

when it comes to the Bible's compilation?

their usual answer when one asks them who compiled the Bible is, "God did it".

and when one asks them how God did it, they don't give a clear answer.

Answer 1

Pastor Billy says: I feel called to correct Michael Kelly, non-Catholics sometimes know a tradition of biblical interpretation better than some Catholics know their own.

To say non-Catholics know the bible better than Catholics is not altogether correct. A Catholic who knows the Christian faith would never agree to the Protestant Brethren idea on endtimes theology which preaches a secret coming of Christ in the Rapture from a biblical interpretation.

No non-Catholics do not know the bible better for if they did they would be ... Catholic.

Answer 2

Hello,

Though RC, I have to admit as a rule of thumb non Catholic Christians know their bible much better than Roman Catholics do. I had a great older friend who was a minister in the Church Of Christ Disciples and I took three years of Bible classes including the Book Of Revelations and that knowledge has been very valuable to me and better than the Baltimore Catechism I grew up with.

On the other hand, and as you can see on YA, many Christians are very poor or know next to nothing about ancient and medieval history as well as the social philosophies and ways of life people had lived in the past ages and either come out with ridiculous statements that are contradictory to history and are as stupid as saying that Hitler commited genocide against the North American Indian through to not understanding that church and state were intertwined in the middle ages and that new ideas conflicting with the church were as a clear and present danger to those societies as commies and Islamic fundies are to us today.

The bible was not even put into decent chronological order apparently until about 1663. Also you can spend a life time studying it and one needs guidance from theologians or experts at times... I never bought the idea that an illiterate poor peasant or milk maid could be their own expert on bible interpretation as some profess.

Cheers,

Michael Kelly

Answer 3

Chris,

It really seems ridiculous that you continue saying that Catholics are not Christians.

Maybe you should look within yourself....

...then search knowledge in Catholicism

...and become a true Christian.




While Scripture is evidence enough for the marks of Christ's Church, we can see in the writings of Ignatius -- written in the first century, within 67 years of Christ's resurrection, by a close friend and appointee of the Apostle Peter and friend of Polycarp -- that the early Church had a very Catholic interpretation of Scripture:


the Church was Divinely established as a visible society, the salvation of souls is its end, and those who separate themselves from it cut themselves off from God (Epistle to the Philadelphians)

the hierarchy of the Church was instituted by Christ (Epistles to the Philadelphians and the Ephesians)

the threefold character of the hierarchy (Epistle to the Magnesians)

the order of the episcopacy superior by Divine authority to that of the priesthood (Epistles to the Magnesians, Smyraenians, and the Trallians)

the importance of unity of the Church (Epistles to the Trallians, Philadelphians, and the Magnesians)

emphasis on the holiness of the Church (Epistles to the Smyraeans, Ephesians, Magnesians, Trallians, and Romans)

the catholicity of the Church (Letter to the Smyraeans)

the infallibility of the Church (Epistles to the Philadelphians and the Ephesians)

the doctrine of the Eucharist , belief in Transsubstantiation or the Real Presence of Christ in Communion (Epistle to the Smyraeans)

the Incarnation (Epistle to the Ephesians)

the supernatural virtue of virgnity (Epistle to Polycarp)

the religious character of matrimony (Epistle to Polycarp)

the value of united prayer (Epistle to the Ephesians)

the primacy of the Chair of Peter (Epistle to the Romans, introduction)

a dencouncing of the (later Protestant) doctrine of private judgement in matters of religion (Epistle to the Philadelphians)

Answer 4

because the compilation and canonizing of the New testament was done by the Catholic Church and the NT came out of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Tradition

Answer 5

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Answer 6

First, is their hatred and bigotry, which makes them susceptible to anything and everything they hear, even things woven out of whole cloth!

The might READ the bible, but they refuse to study it in its entirety, which makes them miss the meaning sometimes. Worse of all, if they take it literally ... then they are really lost.

Answer 7

Read??? I thought they just make it up as they go along.

As you can tell from all the thumbs down, they also flock to anything that says "Catholic" - like a moth to a flame. I find it quite amusing.

Answer 8

they only hear and read any anti-Catholic stuff to feed their hatred against the Catholic Church. they don't care if what they heard or read is true or not as long as it's anti-Catholic they are more than willing to embrace it and believe it. that's how their mind works.

see how poorly educated your first answerer is (that is, if he's educated at all)

Answer 9

Since the Bible was already compiled before the catholic cult existed, you shouldn't have any question about this.

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