Do try to keep up. Catholics on the RF regularly claim the Catholic church WROTE the Bible.
And, no they were not SOLELY responsible for preserving and protecting it and making it available to YOU.
All anyone needs is one example to disprove that claim and it's *Dead Sea Scrolls*
And the Catholic church did it's darndest to keep the Bible OUT of the hands of the laity.
Do you need those pronouncements posted to you yet AGAIN?
say thanks!
Not to the Catholic church I won't. They don't deserve it.
Thank you God, the Holy Spirit, for preserving your word.
Well; THIS'll get debated; but ROME surely DOES make the claim that ONLY it knows just what the bible really MEANS!
no they don't...the Jews basically wrote the old testament (including the dead sea scrolls) And, no they were not SOLELY responsible for preserving and protecting it and making it available to YOU.
Yes, they were solely responsible for preserving the bible, old and new testament, in the form of the bible, so that you could read it......had it not been for the Catholics, you might have been able to find a copy of the old testament somewhere....but you'd know nothing of the new testament. PERIOD. All anyone needs is one example to disprove that claim and it's *Dead Sea Scrolls*
OLD TESTAMENT And the Catholic church did it's darndest to keep the Bible OUT of the hands of the laity.
97+ % of the people at that time were illiterate....the bibles, at that time were hand printed and VERY EXPENSIVE, all were in the hands of royalty, wealthy families and libraries (mostly Monastaries).....no need for Amazon at that time...By the time that the middle ages arrived, the church NEVER attempted to keep the true bible out of the hands of the people, just contaminated versions (maybe the book of mormon) from the public. Until the printing press was invented, the bible couldn't possibly have been in the hands of the public....not a chance. There isn't a person in the world who thinks that another group could have possibly brought you the bible. The Catholic church was in physical possession of whatever writings that there were at the time and they alone were in a position to transcribe them and copy them by hand 1 copy at a time.....noone else could have possibly done it.