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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
Why would I thank Babylon for something the Apostles wrote, by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost? You stick with your dead idols and what you know, and I’ll stick with the scriptures

of course they were written by the evangalists and the apostles, of course they were inspired by the Holy Spirit.....that was 2,000 years ago. How do you think that you have access to something written by a handfull of people in an obscure part of the middle east??? The early believers and followers of Christ were the beginnings of Catholicism and it is those people who recorded the writings, edited them, transcribed them, hand copied them in Catholic monastaries for 2,000 years....Virtually noone had a copy of the bible until modern times....first of all they couldn't afford it, secondly the VAST majority of them couldn,t read it. Throught the ages, Catholics preserved the holy books and writings, translated them into every language on earth, and thanks to the printing press, you can have your own copy.......say THANKS CATHOLICS!!!!!

38 posted on 09/21/2013 4:29:41 PM PDT by terycarl
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To: terycarl

“of course they were written by the evangalists and the apostles, of course they were inspired by the Holy Spirit.....that was 2,000 years ago. How do you think that you have access to something written by a handfull of people in an obscure part of the middle east??? “


Certainly it had nothing to do with Rome. Even in the 4th century, you guys considered the epistle to the Hebrews to be a fraudulent work, since you were too incompetent to answer the heretics who abused it. The Greek churches also put out Revelation, for similar reasons.

Luckily God is in control and not fallible men, and thank God again that the Papists don’t have any of the history or tradition that they fantasize to have.


39 posted on 09/21/2013 4:41:12 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
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“Virtually noone had a copy of the bible until modern times....first of all they couldn’t afford it, secondly the VAST majority of them couldn,t read it. “


I forgot to reply to this, but this is very ignorant. Even Polycarp, in his letter to the churches, not only quotes the scriptures heavily, but even speaks of the scriptures as something that they owned and were well versed in. Indeed, between Papias, Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, and Irenaeus, almost every single book in the New Testament was quoted from and taught from. The Christians were a lot more literate than you give them credit for. Maybe believers in Roman Catholicism are mostly illiterate, but people back then weren’t idiots.


40 posted on 09/21/2013 4:43:42 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
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