[annalex]

the Bible is older than the Church

Of course the Old Testament is older, but the Christian Canon of it is set forth by the Church, while the New Testament, the tool that unlocks the Old Testament for us, is a direct product of the Church.

[Quix]

a direct product of the Church.

Affirmed by the Church Universal at large in the world 300-400 years after the writing of it . . .

But T'was NOT a product of

the political power-mongering RELIGIONISTS in Rome lording it over all the other Christian serfs.

Thankfully.

Though the rubber histories, rubber logic of the RC edifice's magicsterical persistently begs to differ!

Clearly, we have another pontifical effort to shove the revisionist rubber history, rubber Bibles and rubber logic of the RC political power mongers down the collective throat of the rest of the world.

Of course, that includes the standard issuance of special dispensations; special indulgences and special issuances of sackcloth and ashes for the charisteristic wailing and whining and abuse button sitting exercises so !!!!TRADITIONAL!!!! for RC edifice reps. I wonder how many encouragements for Prottys to go commit suicide there will be in this thread.

Is it just me or is it tooooo early for another edition of this nonsense?

[Zionist Conspirator]

Of course the Old Testament is older, but the Christian Canon of it is set forth by the Church, while the New Testament, the tool that unlocks the Old Testament for us, is a direct product of the Church.

If you're going to insist the Jews "got it wrong" for the thousand years after Sinai, don't complain that Martin Luther was silly to believe the Church got it wrong for the first 1500 years of chr*stianity.

Assuming the truth of chr*stianity is no different than assuming the truth of Protestantism. If Protestants should open themselves up to critique by the prior tradition then so should chr*stianity itself.