Your logic escapes me. However, I must dispute the statement that the Bible was given to the world by “The catholic church”. This is simply NOT true. First, all scripture is inspired by God. The Greek here states that scripture is inspired or “God breathed”. Scripture comes from God for the benefit of the Church.
The service performed by the church in the early centuries was to attest to those writings which were to be included in the Canon and which were to be discarded. They did not produce the books of the Bible neither was it a popularity contest. Instead, the early churches served as a witness to the authenticity of those letters and books.
In my Sunday school class I circulated three envelopes marked ‘A’, ‘B’, and ‘C’. In two were U.S. dollar bills. In the third was a green piece of paper which had been decorated by my wife to look like an imitation dollar bill. As the class members examined the contents of the envelopes they were able to attest as to the authenticity of the contents of the envelope. They did not add or detract from the authenticity. They merely attested as to which bills were authentic.
In the same manner, the early church witnesses to us as to which manuscripts should be included in the Bible.
As far as the Old Testament goes, it is really audacious for anybody, other than the Jews to take any credit.
my, my, my, his logic was perfect. Yes, the bible verses were inspired by God, yes the old testament was Jewish and completely established, and yes, the Catholic Church did not write the bible, but they did compile it. They took the old testament books, edited, fact checked, and sorted the new testament books, and compiled what you now know as the bible. Having done so, they would be pretty obvious if they did not follow, word for word, what they themselves compiled. There were no editors, no protestants to judge, no critics who could stop them, they were pretty much on their own when it came to what would be in the bible and what would not. As the Catholic church grew, is followed the book, which they has compiled, to a "T". ...1,500 years later came the protestants and guess what, they protested the interpretation of the bible by the group that had compiled it. It took about 300 years (we are less removed from the revolutionary war than that) for the bible to be edited, compiled, proof read, whatever...it took until the 1400's before anyone except royalty, major libraries etc. could afford to own a bible (printing press). The Catholic church, through the efforts mostly of her monks, hand copied who knows how many copies of the bible and without their efforts, you wouldn't even know what a bible was. Please do not ever say that the Catholic church is not biblical....they are the ONLY Christian church (not denomination) that is. The protestant movement actually removed some books from the bible which, at that time, was 1500 years old....just what the bible needed..editors!!
Excellent object lesson. I will have to remember that. Thank you.