Why does the Catholic Church hate the fact that everyone has their own Bible now?

Question

Geezah - have no fear, no protestants here.

Dear MaH, either buy some head gear, or read some history.

”The Bible was copied by hand by CATHOLICS.” There are over 5000 New Testament manuscripts in Greek that are hand copied. All of the non-catholic bibles of history were also hand copied. The Catholics were not the only ones copying the Bible. So how does this make Catholics unique?

”The first Bibles printed with the printing press were CATHOLIC Bibles.” Did they have the sanction of the Catholic Church? No. Were the told to cease & desist by the Popes? Yes. Was their product sold on the Black Market as contraband? Yes.

”The first translations of the Bible into the vernacular were done by CATHOLICS.” – No the only Catholic Translation ever done was by Jerome, and then the Catholic Church proceeded to destroy all the translations in the Old Italia from the 1st century, ban any other bibles in any other language, lock up it’s bible away from people, and forbid anyone but a priest to read it.

Answer 1

'cos they ain't making money off the profits no more

Answer 2

Your comments are totally without merit, and there is no truth in them.

The Catholic church translated the bible into the common language of the people in the 4th century, producing one of history's most accurate bible translations, the Latin Vulgate, which still holds up very well to modern biblical criticism.

Not only did the church permit Gutenberg to print the bible, but it quickly became Gutenberg's largest customer, as well.

The Catholic church successfully defended the bible and kept it from being profaned for a thousand years, until the late day protestant reformers came along, misappropriated it, changed it, and built a whole new religion around it.

Now we have to put up with people like yourself, telling lies about the only church that Jesus ever founded, for the purpose of our salvation.

Answer 3

The Catholic Church does not "hate" the fact that everyone has their own Bible. In fact, the Catholic Church encourages all people to own a Bible, now that they are both affordable and readily available.

You might try operating on FACT rather than fiction. There's plenty of TRUE stuff about Catholicism out there that you can make up some excuse to complain about without using such falsehoods.

Answer 4

Grow up and get a Catholic education. I constantly see these ridiculous questions from you that are absolutely baseless. The Church does not hate it that people have bibles. Time and time again we have answered your questions and yet you still persist in your attacks. IMHO, you suffer from extreme fundamentalism, where there’s always a shadow lurking in the corner, always a truth being hidden from you by a higher “authority”. As far as you’re concerned, what we tell you about the Church is meaningless because we “preach one thing and practice another”. Under that bias, your ears will never be open to our words, no matter how sincere we are. I think you and Dan Brown would get along nicely.

Answer 5

It does not.

All Catholics are encouraged to read the Bible.

The Catholic Church teaches: The Church forcefully and specifically exhorts all the Christian faithful to learn ‘the surpassing knowledge of Jesus Christ,' by frequent reading of the divine Scriptures. ‘Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.'

We also all listen to the Word being proclaimed and explained in every Mass.

In every Sunday Mass there are at least four Bible readings
+ First Reading - usually from the Old Testament
+ A Psalm is prayed by all
+ Second Reading - usually from a New Testament Epistle
+ Gospel Reading
+ then the priest bring them all together and helps us apply them to our lives in the homily

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 131-133: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect1chpt2.htm#131

With love in Christ.

Answer 6

Is that why the Catholic Church is publishing millions of Bibles in most major languages?
Is that why the nuns gave me a Bible in the 5th grade and again in the 9th?
Is that why my Catholic parish has home bible studies and weekly 2 parish Bible classes fro adults and one for 7th graders?
Is that whyCatholic monks spent their lives copying the Bibles they hated?
Is that why the Pope give indulgences to Bible readers?

Answer 7

The Catholic Church was the only Christian Church until 1517 When a Man named Martin Luther, (Note: Not Martin Luther King, but the original Martin Luther) nailed his 95 Theses of Contention to the Wittenberg Church door. He further angered the Church when he translated the Bible into ordinary German, (Martin Luther was German) so that ordinary people could read the Bible and not depend on Priests to tell them what was written in the Bible. That's how the name Protestant came to being, he Protested the Catholic Church and brought in a new era of Christianity based on the belief that people are saved by Grace, through Faith alone.
To some degree the Catholic Church is still angry that people are allowed to read the the Bible on their own without a priest translating what it says, but in Martin Luther's day, the penalty was death for reading it.

Answer 8

The Bible was copied by hand by CATHOLICS.

The first Bibles printed with the printing press were CATHOLIC Bibles.

The first translations of the Bible into the vernacular were done by CATHOLICS.

And really, the idea that "everyone" has "their own Bible" is not entirely accurate, even in the Protestant congregations, when one considers societies which are largely illiterate and impoverished. Amazingly enough, Bibles in those places are kept by the leaders of the congregation so that everyone may have access to them. And it is read to those who cannot read....just as Catholics have done throughout the ages.

Besides, the Bible itself tells us that faith comes by HEARING, not reading.

Why do you persist in spreading lies?

Answer 9

the same reason they didnt want people to believe the world was flat and the same reason that right now they dont want people to believe in evolution... they dont like the fact that they can be wrong about something which takes the fait out of it but they dont want people to realize that if they are not right about one thing that they could be wrong about every thing. and when people all given all these choices about which version is right less people are going to go catholic or not pick one at all because again they may realize they could be wrong because if the same story is told so many different ways then how do u no any are ture right.... and i think a large part is not that they want more people in heaven or they want to be good and be saviures just like there christ but i think that is is for money and power because in the last few hundred year the catholic church has gone from being the biggest influence in anything from bussness to politics and expesally war but today the church has very little say in anything

Answer 10

Your question is misinformed. For the United States there are about 5 major Catholic Bibles all saying the same but at different levels of understanding and reading ability. Show me any official church teaching that says the Church hates the fact that people have the bible? Pope, encyclical, anything official for the whole church please?

Answer 11

Rome and her adherents attitude toward the Bible has generally historically been one from quite the opposite that of the Bereans (Acts 17:11) to general apathy , because for her it is at best a secondary authority.

Taking on the form of the empire in which it was found, it became a vast an autocratic (answerable to no one) institution, with it's own Caesario-papacy, that adds to the Bible and effectively it makes it a second class authority (after the "Teaching Magisterium"). Thus were unScriptural doctrines like indulgences and novenas and prayers to saints adopted, and the Bible was effectively bound from the common people for hundreds of years, while later Bingo was loosed! Hence a autocratic Caesario -papacy that makes the Bible a second place authority to an autocratic pope and church.

Rejecting Scripture as The Authority, means one must look to or allow other uninspired sources for doctrine, and thus we have every unwarranted Roman doctrine, from Paedo-baptism, to the Perpetuated Petrine Papacy, to Purgatory to Prayers for the dead.

But the ultimate error of Rome is that of fostering dependence upon her supposed powers, as well as one's own merits, for salvation, rather than coming before God as sinners, destitute of any merit whereby they may escape Hell and gain Heaven, and thus casting all their faith upon Christ and His blood for justification and regeneration (Rm. 3:9 - 5:8; Eph. 1:13; Titus 3:5).

And having turned from sin to Him, be baptized under water (Acts 8:37) and walk in newness of life (Rm. 6). And so to God be the glory alone!!