Seems funny, since the NT Scriptures were usually written in Greek! The RC version makes numerous errors in it's translations of the original extant texts. But, who cares about facts, when the Pope decrees it...
Seems funny, since the NT Scriptures were usually written in Greek! The RC version makes numerous errors in it's translations of the original extant texts. But, who cares about facts, when the Pope decrees it...
I openly admit that various Catholic leaders made huge mistakes.
(So did the Jews in the Old Testament, if memory serves. This did not change the fact that they were the “chosen people” did it?)
Tell me your denomination, and I can, in short order, find a terrible thing done, by someone in your denomination, in the name of your faith.
Done under false pretenses, but done just the same.
The Roman Catholic version was the FIRST version.
Also, those who translated the King James version referenced the Vulgate and Greek and Hebrew versions as well.
History, if you study true history, will lead you to respect the work of the Catholic Church, as NONE of the translations which YOU “worship” would be possible without the Catholic Church.
It is the Catholic Church which preserved the original texts that the King James Bible claims to use.
We, as Christians, should be grateful for the good that the Catholic Church has done for Christianity. That such a huge, rigid, authoritarian, manmade organization became corrupt was a foregone conclusion after the fall, though. The freedom to contradict bad doctrine is something for which many fought and died. But, some fought for less than honorable reasons. It is what it is. We’re dealing with human beings, after all. I’ve known many Catholics who I believe to have found salvation, so I’m certain it is possible to negotiate that maze and come out the other side. Several recent popes have been genuine men of God, in my estimation, particularly Pope John Paul. I disagree profoundly with that church on many things, and have been somewhat outspoken about it here on FR, but won’t stoop to completely condemn it.