Posted on 01/04/2009 8:07:31 PM PST by Stourme
THE CATHOLIC BIBLE
Holding the "Douay" Roman Catholic Version of the Bible aloft in my hand, I ask, "Do YOU accept THIS Bible as the Word of God?" For reasons best known to themselves, the Catholic Truth Society have published their Version of the Bible in a very short, stumpy form. This Version is a very odd proportion of the numerous Versions in the market today. The Christian questioner is taken aback. "What Bible is that?" he asks. "Why, I thought you said that there was only ONE Bible!" I remind him. "Y-e-s," he murmurs hesitantly, "but what Version is that?" "Why, would that make any difference?" I enquire. Of course it does, and the professional preacher knows that it does. He is only bluffing with his "ONE Bible" claim.
The Roman Catholic Bible was published at Rheims in 1582, from Jerome's Latin Vulgate and reproduced at Douay in 1609. As such the RCV (Roman Catholic Version) is the oldest Version that one can still buy today. Despite its antiquity, the whole of the Protestant world, including the "cults"* condemn the RCV because it contains seven extra "books" which they contemptuously refer to as the "apocrypha" i.e. of DOUBTFUL AUTHORITY. Notwithstanding the dire warning contained in the Apocalypse, which is the last book in the RCV (renamed as "Revelation" by the Protestants), it is "revealed":
". . . If any man shall add to these things (or delete) God shall add unto him the plagues written in this Book." (Revelation 22:18-19)
But who cares! They do not really believe! The Protestants have bravely expunged seven whole books from their Book of God! The outcasts are:
The Book of Judith
The Book of Tobias
The Book of Baruch
The Buck of Esther, etc.
* This disparaging title is given by the orthodox to Jehovah's Witnesses, the Seventh Day Adventists and a thousand other sects and denominations with whom they do not see eye to eye.
I’m a King James Bible Only Christian. Never found another Bible to top it.
And no I don’t feel like debating anything. I’m just stating what I believe.
Again, it doesn’t matter. If the article has a title, use it.
Figure the odds that's going to happen. LOL! I suspect it won't be long before the battles break out on this thread. :o)
And don't forget that the "universal" Old Testament (that common to all branches of Christianity and Judaism) actually refer to books that aren't included in the Canons of any of the branches!
By what right did the Church set the Canon in 393? And why did they choose a different Canon than that of the Jews (for the Old Testament that Jesus used), and different than that of the Greek Orthodox Church?
And in fact, even the Jewish tradition at the time of Jesus had different Canons, depending upon which branch of Judaism you belonged to. Which one of these was truly correct, and the foundation for Jesus' teachings?
When branches elevate their Bible above others, or one translation above another, they are in fact making the Bible the object of their worship, rather than the God Incarnate that inspired it.
We'd do well to remember Moses and the golden calf...
The Buck of Esther? My non-apocryphal Holy Bible has the Book of Esther in it.
Jesus is the Word of God. The Holy Bible is the Word of God in written form. However man revises the Scripture, the true Word of God will negate any errors made by either revisionists or printers. That which is false will not prosper. God gave us cognitive powers, and we are to use them in seeking His guidance in Holy Scripture.
Amen! God merely spoke, and the world came into being. Well, God spoke again another time, and the Bible came into being. The Bible is Gods Word God spoke, and the Bible is what He said.
In 2 Timothy 3:16, it says, All Scripture is given by inspiration of God
The phrase given by inspiration of God, is one word in the Greek text. It is the word theopneustos, which means "God-breathed." Theopneustos is a compound word, with theo the Greek word for God, attached to the word pneustos which means wind, or spirit, or breath.
So, this verse literally says that all scripture is God-breathed. Therefore, all Scripture is Gods breath, or Gods spirit.
When the human authors like Moses, or David, or Isaiah, or Paul, wrote Scripture that Scripture was Gods inspired Word. These men were guided in such a way that what they wrote was exactly what God wanted them to write. God actually spoke through them so that the result was a book that was really written by God. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. It is God-breathed.
That's exactly what it is....
Perhaps we can defuse some of the rancor by addressing not how the Word of God may have been changed or misinterpreted, but rather addressing how the very languages It has been expressed in has changed over time. As an example the word “Bald” appears numerous times in the Old Testament of several different translations. At the time the King James version was written the word meant “white”, not hairless. How else might changes to the meanings of the words used affect our understanding?
I noticed. LOL! I'm ducking out of here. :o)
You mean the Book of Mormon and the Pearl of Great Price?
I believe it is the word of God, but it is not always to be taken literally.
For example, many people believe that John was not to be taken literally in much of what he wrote.
Such as Revelations.
Revelations?
John didn't write "Revelations".
LOL
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