[John Leland 1789]

” . . . Holy Bible and thank the Catholic Church as you praide God and His Holy Word. The Catholic Church gave you the Bible and it is the biggest sermon that has ever been given.”

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Well the RCC did produce something they call a Bible, but there were Antiochan and Byzantine type texts of the Greek New Testament, along with the Hebrew OT long before there was a RCC, which didn’t have any official beginning until after 325 AD.

You wouldn’t say that the RCC gave the world Genesis through 2 Chronicles (order in the Hebew OT). I just know you wouldn’t That was provided, humanly speaking, by the Nation of Israel.

[notaliberal]

You’ve spent too much time in the mountains.

[Campion]

long before there was a RCC, which didn’t have any official beginning until after 325 AD.

Horsefeathers.

[rbmillerjr]

“Well the RCC did produce something they call a Bible”

You are a preacher? It scares me that you don’t know that that “something that Catholics call a Bible” indeed was the original cannon accepted and translated that all Bibles are based on. Of course, the KingJames version is based on that which was purposefully mistranslated to support the Reformation.

Just by way of background, the Douay-Rheims was translated from the Latin Vulgate which was prepared by St. Jerome in the fourth century. Jerome was commissioned by pope Damasus to translate Sacred Scripture into Latin using many of the original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts. So the Latin Vulgate is the best translation that we have, and the Douay-Rheims put the Latin Vulgate translation into English (the New Testament was issued in 1582, and the Old Testament in 1609, before the KJV came along).