You wouldn’t have the Bible without the Catholic Church, what you preach is 2000 years and 2 continents and a vast ocean removed from the time of Jesus. Christ founded a Church not a book.
Matthew 2:23, “And He went and settled in a town called Nazareth; that there might be fulfilled what was spoken through the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.”
Where is this prophecy mentioned that he would be called a Nazarene?
Whoever is coaching you guys that this is some sort of "gotcha" question really should spend some time studying your own Early Church Fathers, because it was answered long ago, by Jerome. His answer: Isaiah 11:1.
God also used Judas, Balaam's donkey, and many evil kings. God said He would preserve His word for all generations. The means by which He did it is immaterial. It's actually blasphemy for man to try take the credit. Besides, it was the Jews who where in trusted with the scriptures. The books were well established long before the CC declared it so.
Ahh! That one again! I wonder how many more times we will have to answer that?
In Isaiah 11:1 it says, "Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, and a branch from his roots will bear fruit." In Hebrew, the word for "branch" is netzer, "NZR" which letters are included in NaZaReth.
Even the Catholic Church says that. Not sure why Catholics keep asking that question as if it's some kind of gotcha.
And we THANK them for that!
Why do they get upset when we USE it?
Tanak. The Jews? Somewhat deeper in time.
And in "Our Father", Jesus taught not a Christian, but a Hebrew prayer.
Baloney. WE wouldn't have the Bible without the Holy Spirit who breathed out Scripture to men who wrote as they were moved along by HIM.
For God so loved the world, He did NOT send a committee, no matter what they call themselves and how infallible they declare themselves to be.