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To: Thorin
As to your other question, the Catholic Church decided which books would become part of the canonical Bible.

Tell me, are there sixty six books in your Bible? Well, thirty-nine of them are in the Hebrew TaNaKh, and I can assure you they did not get there by the "church". I keep hearing this "we gave you the Bible" tripe from RCs. Sorry dude, ALL of the writers of the Bible were JEWISH. And it is pure and simple arrogance to claim that the Catholic "church" canonized the Bible. We predate you by over a thousand years.
511 posted on 04/14/2005 6:45:40 PM PDT by safisoft (Give me Torah!)
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To: safisoft
I keep hearing this "we gave you the Bible" tripe from RCs. Sorry dude

You construct straw man and boldly knock it down -whoopee!

Your straw man does not address the statement: "the Catholic Church decided which books would become part of the canonical Bible"

Other than attempting to toot your own horn at the expense of others -you contribute nothing to this discussion.

515 posted on 04/14/2005 6:53:06 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: safisoft
>>>>>>Tell me, are there sixty six books in your Bible?

No, there are 73 books in my Bible--46 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament. And the decision as to which books ended up in the Bible was made by the Catholic Church.

>>>>>>>I keep hearing this "we gave you the Bible" tripe from RCs.

"Tripe" would be a charitable description of your writings.

529 posted on 04/14/2005 7:20:04 PM PDT by Thorin ("I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: safisoft
I can assure you they did not get there by the "church". I keep hearing this "we gave you the Bible" tripe from RCs. Sorry dude, ALL of the writers of the Bible were JEWISH.

Well, no, as a matter of fact, all of the writers of the Christian Bible weren't Jewish; St. Luke was a Gentile. And given that (modern) Jews consider a Jew who recognizes Jesus as the Messiah to be not-a-Jew, I suppose you could say that none of of the writers of the NT were Jewish.

And it is pure and simple arrogance to claim that the Catholic "church" canonized the Bible. We predate you by over a thousand years.

As far as we're concerned, Judaism before the resurrection and Catholicism afterwards are one and the same thing. In fact, our Scriptures pretty flatly say so (Romans 11:17-24).

From our POV, you didn't "predate" us. You were us.

570 posted on 04/14/2005 8:26:12 PM PDT by Campion
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