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To: Elsie

OK so how is the “Catholic Bible” different from 2000 years ago? Getting past the fact that the New Testament was written not exactly 2000 but perhaps 1950 years ago.


5,578 posted on 01/09/2015 8:06:54 AM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: annalex; Elsie

alex -- I just showed you how, providing links which go into close detail.

It is unavoidable that issues of 'canon' (what books rightly comprise the canon, and what books do not) comes into play.

Yet you are still saying there has been "no difference for 2000 years?"

Obviously -- you must still be ignoring the evidence which strongly indicates the contrary, but doing so (as far as I can tell) by alluding to what accuracy of textual details within the various books which make up the "Bible" that there is...

If you insist now upon examination of texts themselves (as for theologically significant "change") we could talk about how the RCC corrupted Genesis 3:15, changing the gender there, of who it is that is said will bruise (or harm) the head of the serpent, and the serpent bruise the heel thereof -- of that person, that "seed" as it were. It is written that this seed is a "he", not a "she", and nor will it be "she" (as in Eve, or Mary either). But check out how those within the RCC changed the Latin texts to say "she", and how the USCCB puts it as;

They will strike at your head,

while you strike at their heel.

In all of the Greek texts, and in the oldest Latin also, it is not written as "they" will strike, and "their" heel will be stricken, but the U.S. [Roman] Catholic bishops have changed the text itself from "how it was 2000 years ago" with their footnotes there providing their excuses for having tampered with and introduced confusion into the text itself, far beyond things being simply a matter of honest & best translation choice.

Or we could talk about how Jerome wrote what translates into English as "do penance" suggesting there acts of contrition which those of Rome then began to prescribe as additional "works" one must do in order to find the grace and forgiveness of God --- when originally (as would translate) the word was more simply --- repentance, without all the later-on freighted innuendo.

5,581 posted on 01/09/2015 12:57:18 PM PST by BlueDragon
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To: annalex
OK so how is the “Catholic Bible” different from 2000 years ago?

It's been SHOWN in this thread.

GO READ IT!


5,584 posted on 01/09/2015 1:49:26 PM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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