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To: GlennD
I think you should have copied the rest of the statement which was “(Quoting the Bible to prove it’s own authenticity really proves nothing.)”

As with this and the rest of your comments you're not even close to the point I was making. The bible is provable not because the Catholic Church has an authority to declare it, it is true because you can look at history, you can investigate the text itself, and prove the authenticy of it's authority...and true author.

157 posted on 08/02/2007 5:11:10 AM PDT by sirchtruth (No one has the RIGHT not to be offended...)
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To: sirchtruth
“As with this and the rest of your comments you’re not even close to the point I was making. The bible is provable not because the Catholic Church has an authority to declare it, it is true because you can look at history, you can investigate the text itself, and prove the authenticy of it’s authority...and true author.”(sirchtruth)

I guess I wasn’t clear enough for you to get what I said. As you say, if you look at history... The history is what the Catholic Church did to put the Bible together. That IS the history. After almost 400 years, there were all sorts of writings, floating around, causing confusion and heresy. The pope called the bishops of the Church together to determine what was true and what was error. They put together the selection of books now known as the “Bible.” If the Church hadn’t done that, there would be no Bible now.

You are correct that it’s all true, but that was the job of those bishops. When they completed their work, they submitted it to the pope to approve, which he did.

Unfortunately, in the 16th century, some folks got together and changed various and sundry words and phrases and tossed out several books from the Old Testament, and several more from the New Testament, so as to try to make it agree with the new religion they made up. That is the protestant bible. The Bible IS the Bible because the Catholic Church declared it to be the inspired Word of God.

The Bible consists of 46 books of the OT & 27 books of the NT. Count the books in yours. If it doesn’t match, you don’t have the whole Bible. -Glenn

172 posted on 08/03/2007 9:25:00 PM PDT by GlennD
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