Not so.. Most accurate(and inaccurate) bibles are translated from copies of original manuscipt texts(mostly greek and other languages) not from latin.. the vulgate is the translation of the same..
True Eusebius "canonized" certain books, agreeing with Eusebius on what those book were is not the same as receiving them from him and the organization he belonged to..
For centuries the Roman Catholic church murdered people just for reading scripture.. and LOCKed up scripture into latin that no one but RCC priests even understood(Latin).. It happened.. Its documented (Foxes book of Martyrs) and many other places..
Roman Catholic and so-called Protestant dogma can make one ignorant sometimes.. The Middle Ages was a dark time for all.. some say because the bible was LOCKED UP.. I tend to think there were many reasons for the dark ages.. locking up the bible was only one of them..
Hindsight is 20/20 but to say it didn't happen or not even to know that it DID happen is inexcusable.. Roman Catholics generally have faith in their church not the bible, Protestants generally have faith in the bible not their church.. but christians have faith in God, the bible and church are just freebies from God.. in my experience..
Whos right, correct, accurate.?. I can't say.. except to say, everyone is exactly where they are suppose to be in this sense.. The separating of the sheep from goats continues and you and I are being tested in this way.. The plan is pure genius.. God is a genius..
Is God COOL or WHAT.?.
Roman Catholic and so-called Protestant dogma can make one ignorant sometimes.. The Middle Ages was a dark time for all.. some say because the bible was LOCKED UP.. I tend to think there were many reasons for the dark ages.. locking up the bible was only one of them..
Both of the bolded assertions are pure hogwash. In the medieval period Latin was the common language of Europe. If you were anyone important you'd have known Latin. Also there were more priests and nuns in the Medieval period than today, so it wasn't that select a portion of society that read in Latin. Furthermore many merchants, princes, nobles and kings could read Latin (and thus the Bible), none of these people were killed for it. In fact many owned Bibles transcribed meticulously by monks for the very purpose of reading the Holy Book. The Medieval period was not as dark as you think, many institutions have their roots in our medieval past. I suggest you read up on your medieval history, otherwise I'd say your answer is a knee-jerk ditto from some raving madman. "Europe: Hierarchy and Revolt" by George Holmes is a start as well as "The Civilization of the Middle Ages: A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History" By Norman Cantor. By no means do I denigrate Protestantism, after all it brought about Modern Science. And otherwise I'd be wearing vestments and arguing about angels dancing on the heads of a pin, while my brethren were out fighting the Moslems. Plus flush toilets are always nice. :-)
Cheers,
CSG