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“Most of the books of the New Testament were written in the first 100 years after the Resurrection”
More like by the time John wrote Revelation around 70AD they were all written. I guess he is counting the Gnostic gospels. He should try reading one if he wants to talk about it.
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The average person couldn’t read at all at the time Latin or otherwise, but many years later, when Wycliff translated the Bible into english, people were killed by the Church:
One of Wycliffe’s followers, John Hus, actively promoted Wycliffe’s ideas: that people should be permitted to read the Bible in their own language, and they should oppose the tyranny of the Roman church that threatened anyone possessing a non-Latin Bible with execution. Hus was burned at the stake in 1415, with Wycliffe’s manuscript Bibles used as kindling for the fire. The last words of John Hus were that, “in 100 years, God will raise up a man whose calls for reform cannot be suppressed.” Almost exactly 100 years later, in 1517, Martin Luther nailed his famous 95 Theses of Contention (a list of 95 issues of heretical theology and crimes of the Roman Catholic Church) into the church door at Wittenberg. The prophecy of Hus had come true! Martin Luther went on to be the first person to translate and publish the Bible in the commonly-spoken dialect of the German people; a translation more appealing than previous German Biblical translations. Foxe’s Book of Martyrs records that in that same year, 1517, seven people were burned at the stake by the Roman Catholic Church for the crime of teaching their children to say the Lord’s Prayer in English rather than Latin.
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All of the Bible was written by Torah-observant Jews
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua
( except for the doctor Luke who was gentile)
under the guidance of the Ru'ach HaKodesh.
1. GOD wrote the Bible via the Holy Spirit, and none of the Apostles were Catholics as any sane person would define the term.
2. Athanasius compiled the canonical list of books included in the New Testament - his time predates the split between Orthodox and Catholic, so claiming him as Catholic is not entirely correct. This is dissembling.
3. The Vulgate was not as accurate as later versions, and, further, translation from Latin into languages that the people spoke such as German, English, etc. was fought by the Catholic church for many years.
I didn't know that Moses, David, Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter, Jude, et al, were Catholic. News to me!
I have been teaching the Bible for 30 years, and never ran across this tidbit. Amazing!
NYer, this is undoubtedly one of the worst articles I have seen on the FR religion board. Why the Latin Church would allow this puerile drivel to be published under its name is absolutely beyond me. Whoever is responsible for this should be ashamed and the editor of this site fired.
If this Mickey Addison is typical of Latin rite catechists, I can only say that its no wonder the Latin Church here is in the sorry state its in.
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Right, the Catholics wrote the bible, translated the bible, copied the bible, and kept the bible in print, by hand, during the middle ages.
What many protestants and cathoics don’t know is that the present lectionary we use at mass is also used by the: lutherans, presbyterians and methodists. How’s that for us not knowing the bible then I guess the protestants don’t know it either.
Also, by attending sunday mass for three years the bible is read and then interpreted by a priest.
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Pope St. Innocent I closed the 73 book Canon of the Bible in 405 AD.
Nobody ever talks about the fact that much of scripture is written in Greek. The Greeks being Eastern Orthodox probably have a good handle on what’s in the bible especially when one considers that translating Greek to Latin or any other language may have opened the door to interpretive differences.
And shame on you for saying the Catholic Church wrote the Bible. G-d wrote the Torah. The inspired prophets and sages wrote the Na"KH, and it was canonized by the 'Anshei-HaKenesset HaGedolah. Now, your church may have written the "new testament" . . . but you're welcome to that!
Um, excuse me but the Roman Catholic Church was established in 1054 A.D. so how can it be that it was 2000 years? LOL
If you say the Orthodox Christian Church then you are correct. The Roman Catholic Church is a spin off of the Orthodox Church.
And the Bible consists of the Hebrew, Greek,Old and New Testament.
It is nice for you that the Catholic Church want to claim this but it simply is not true.
God never intended for “religion” to be part of His plan, catholic, baptist, Jew, Protestant or otherwise.
It was man who brought religion into His plan.
By the way, my first post - how is everyone?
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