The very start of the Reformation was initiated when William Tyndale and others translated the scriptures from the original languages and found profound differences from the Catholic version in Latin. To this day the Catholics are “encouraged” to use a “Catholic version” of scripture. The “traditional Catholic version” of the ten commandments that is listed many places for all to see excludes much or all of the second commandment and most all of us know it.
Throughout these threads I have noted multiple differences in the “Catholic version” of scripture. Some were subtle word changes; some were blatant errors from the original language. I was using the example of the Ten Commandments as one illustration of how the scriptures have been manipulated by the RCC. All of us know that the Catholic Church has not in years past encouraged personal ownership of the written word. Much of it was prior to the availability of the printed word which only increases the responsibility of the “Church” to be true and faithful to the original language of scripture which it wasn’t. That was graphically illustrated when Tyndale and others began to translate from the original language and found those differences and errors.
You can call the “Tradition version” of the Catholic Ten Commandments truncated, a perversion, a travesty, or whatever you want but it stands that most if not all of the published “Catholic version” of the Ten Commandments differs from scripture. That is the travesty.
You can insinuate “pornography” or attempt to obfuscate by referencing and insinuating that we get our information from cultic sites all you want. It still remains that “official” Catholic sites point to the differences and can be easily referenced for those who seek truth.
Your version of harsh doesn’t even come close to the harsh that those who have been misled by the RCC by the “Catholic version” of scriptures and their teachings. I’ll simply close by using the words of scripture in Revelation. “Come out of her”.
When one sees something this foul on the sidewalk it is best to simply step around it and keep going. There are so many falsehoods in this one posting that lies have nearly reached critical mass.
Mind reading and false -- obviously
Where is your citation for what you offered as "The Catholic ten commandments"?
On what basis EXACTLY do you claim that the version you posted is "THE>Catholic version?
You can, if you like, say what the conversation was about. that does not concern me,. In your effort to make a point, you said something that struck me as not only false but embarrassingly false. I was going to ignore it, but smvoice taunted us with not responding to that particular point. SO I responded to that particular point.I was using the example of the Ten Commandments as one illustration of how the scriptures have been manipulated by the RCC.
And the point is false, as I showed from quoting both versions of the Decalogue as translated in the NAB, the copyright to which is owned, I am told, by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops who require us to use it in our Masses -- so it don't get much more Catholic than that.
I do know that as a boy in the Episcopal Church I was not asked to memorize both the Deuteronomy and the Exodus versions of the Decalogue, but shortened version.
Also if you read the links I provided in answer to smvoice, you will see that our way of numbering seems to have started with Augustine, a man much loved of reform Christians, and is used by many Lutherans.
So whatever the large history of Catholics and the Bible is, this particular point you made was false. And that's all I was addressing.
As it happens, I do think there is a legitimate comparison between,on the one hand, the damaging effect of pornography and the damaging effect of the kind of fascination with the purported evil of Catholics that one sees often on FR. I insinuated nothing. I made an analogy.
Obviously.
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.