[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I believe God wrote the bible not the church. Big difference. Do you believe it is inspired or not? Did God write it or the Church? Who is most powerful, God or Church?

Becky

[Polycarp]

Did God write it or the Church? Who is most powerful, God or Church?

The Church is the Body of Christ, Christ is its Head. The two are inseparable. You pose a false dichotomy.

[Desdemona]

Wait a second. Hold the phone Becky. I've heard this one before. God wrote the bible? Then why did it take 100 years to get the 27 books of the New Testament? And why then 27 books. Why not just one? Why didn't Jesus write it himself? Why, then, were the Gospels written for different audiences? Why are there three synoptic Gospels instead of all four? And why synoptic? Why not TOTALLY different?

If God wrote it, it should have been one book written by Jesus. Instead we have ten epistles written by a Roman tax collector, or whatever he was. Four more attributed to him, but not believed to be his work. One Gospel for the Jews, one for Mesopotamia, one for the gentiles, which took two scrolls so is divided into two books, and on and on.

Sorry. That one doesn't hold water. The bible is interpretation of the Word (Jesus didn't write it himself) - and memory. The first Gospel was written down over 30 years after the Resurection. Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians was written at least 10 years before Mark. (The details run together. I haven't had to know this for a long time.) The truth of the matter is, this is all we have. This and the Apocrypha, which is rejected by Protestant sects.

To say that God wrote the bible just doesn't work. Sorry.

[Lady In Blue]

Do you really believe that the bible just dropped down from heaven?! The Catholic church believes that the bible is the inspired word of God. God,however used human instruments,including Church councils to decide which books were inspired and which were not.