[Cronos]

oh, don't worry, the Beatitudes were read in the Apostolic Church long before any of the groupings that call themselves Protestant or Baptist or PEnt-e-costal were even a thought in their human creator's heads. In fact, these groupings and sub-sub-groupings and further splinter cells took the Bible, the beatitudes, all the little good stuff that is in them, from The Church. They got the bad stuff from their own flawed interpretations.

These groupings are inherently flawed, that's why they split so many times, split-split-split.

[metmom]

Too bad the Beatitudes don’t seem to be taken very seriously by many Catholics.

What with all the running to the mods over every little offense taken, it’s kind of hard to believe that they’re familiar with the Beatitudes.

[the_conscience]

...took the Bible, the beatitudes, all the little good stuff that is in them, from The Church.

Protestants tend to attribute these things from God, Jesus, and the economic Trinity. Describe for us why we should ascribe these things from "The Church" instead of God himself? Is God the author of the Bible or is the Church the author of the Bible? Is "The Church" somehow part of the Godhead? Is "The Church" somehow a separate being. What exactly is the nature of "The Church"?