If the Catholic Church gave us the Bible, where is it?

[Patrick1966]

We know King James made one. Where is the Bible that the Catholic Church allegedly gave us?

 

[MatthewG]

Dont know. I was not born in rome.

 

[Bob Estey]

We know King James made one. Where is the Bible that the Catholic Church allegedly gave us?

Who said the Catholic Church gave us a Bible? Catholics have Bibles, just like everyone else.

 

[Windmillcharge]

We know King James made one. Where is the Bible that the Catholic Church allegedly gave us?

It is according to them the Latin vulgate.

 

[Rockerduck]

The Jerusalem Bible is a Catholic bible.

 

[magicmarkers]

There was no printed bible to give anyone for nearly 1,500 years. The Christian world truly has the Catholic Church to thank for the Holy Bible. Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the Catholic Church definitively established the canon of scripture in 382 A.D. at the Council of Rome, which was convened under the leadership of Pope Damasus. Catholic monks diligently preserved hand-copied pages of scripture for centuries. In 1080, bible chapter numbers were assigned by a Catholic Bishop, Stephen Langton. The first printed bible was printed by a Catholic, Johannes Gutenberg, in 1455.

 

[Patrick1966]

The Christian world truly has the Catholic Church to thank for the Holy Bible. Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit...

I thank God for using his people to compile and share the word. Whatever the church of Rome was in those days is a distant memory to what it sadly mutated into.

Thanks for your perspective.

 

[Rockerduck]

There was no printed bible to give anyone for nearly 1,500 years. The Christian world truly has the Catholic Church to thank for the Holy Bible. Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the Catholic Church definitively established the canon of scripture in 382 A.D. at the Council of Rome, which was convened under the leadership of Pope Damasus. Catholic monks diligently preserved hand-copied pages of scripture for centuries. In 1080, bible chapter numbers were assigned by a Catholic Bishop, Stephen Langton. The first printed bible was printed by a Catholic, Johannes Gutenberg, in 1455.

The Marcionite Bible was put together and was used in 144Ad. You can buy one on Amazon. (I'm not discussing Marcion here.), but he was big in the first century​

 

[Ronald Nolette]

There was no printed bible to give anyone for nearly 1,500 years. The Christian world truly has the Catholic Church to thank for the Holy Bible. Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the Catholic Church definitively established the canon of scripture in 382 A.D. at the Council of Rome, which was convened under the leadership of Pope Damasus. Catholic monks diligently preserved hand-copied pages of scripture for centuries. In 1080, bible chapter numbers were assigned by a Catholic Bishop, Stephen Langton. The first printed bible was printed by a Catholic, Johannes Gutenberg, in 1455.

Well if you said the catholic church (small c) I would agree with you.

But the church merely approved the letters and gospels that were widely used and accepted and not without a lot of controversy.

The
roman church as the RCC was not in existence yet.

But the catholic church(small c) meaning the body of Christ gave us the Bible by writing it in the first century for the NT and the Jewish people gave us the OT.

 

[Ronald Nolette]

The Marcionite Bible was put together and was used in 144Ad. You can buy one on Amazon. (I'm not discussing Marcion here.), but he was big in the first century​

Marcion was branded a heretic and antichrist and swas formally excommunicated in 144 AD. He rejected all of our NT writings except the Pauline Epistles.

 

[Patrick1966]

We're told that the "Catholic Church" created the Bible but don't actually have one to show. Interesting.

 

[Patrick1966]

Who said the Catholic Church gave us a Bible? Catholics have Bibles, just like everyone else.

The Catholic Church.

 

[Rockerduck]

Marcion was branded a heretic and antichrist and swas formally excommunicated in 144 AD. He rejected all of our NT writings except the Pauline Epistles.

I know that, didn't you see where wrote, I wasn't discussing Marcion?

 

[Ronald Nolette]

We're told that the "Catholic Church" created the Bible but don't actually have one to show. Interesting.

It is the catholic(universal, small c) church that created the bible. The catholic(small c) is the body of Christ found in all sects and denominations of Christendom. The Catholic (big C)church is the Roman Church and it associates that accept the pope as a successor to the apostles.

 

[magicmarkers]

We're told that the "Catholic Church" created the Bible but don't actually have one to show. Interesting.

Keep following this popcorn trail. Who gave us the first bible? It certainly was not Jesus.

We're told that the "Catholic Church" created the Bible but don't actually have one to show. Interesting

 

[magicmarkers]

We're told that the "Catholic Church" created the Bible but don't actually have one to show. Interesting.

This is a good popcorn trail to follow. Who gave us the first bible? It certainly was not Jesus. Jesus himself actually never writes anything down, and He never left us a bible as a sole authority. He left us a church, the pillar and foundation of truth (1 Tim 3:15)

 

[Patrick1966]

Keep following this popcorn trail. Who gave us the first bible? It certainly was not Jesus.

The modern Catholic Church teaches that Jesus and the apostles failed to give us all sorts of doctrines.

 

[Patrick1966]

This is a good popcorn trail to follow. Who gave us the first bible? It certainly was not Jesus. Jesus himself actually never writes anything down, and He never left us a bible as a sole authority. He left us a church, the pillar and foundation of truth (1 Tim 3:15)

The topic is where is that so-called "Bible" that the Catholic Church brags about creating.

 

[magicmarkers]

The topic is where is that so-called "Bible" that the Catholic Church brags about creating.

It’s the copy you hold in your hands. That one. Though yours may or may not have the complete canon of 73 books. The Holy Spirit guided the Catholic Church (capital C) in canonizing the table of contents for Sacred Scripture. There was not “official bible” before this. So what did Christians do for 300+ years after Christ? They didn’t (indeed, they couldn’t) read their bible. What they did was go to Mass on Sundays. All well documented in the Didache (50-90 AD)

 

[Berserk]

From the Council of Jamnia on (96 AD), Jewish rabbis established the OT canon written in Hebrew that Protestants embrace.
But the Greek OT outside Palestine included the apocrypha and their Bible was basically accpeted as the Catholic OT.
The Apocrypha were even acknowledged as Scripture by the Qumran Essenes. Jesus used Sirach (in the Apocrypha) in developing His teaching. An evangelical friend just finished his adult Sunday school class series on the Apocrypha and was excited to do so.

Nothing is worse than Catholicism at its worst, but no Christian spirituality is superior to Catholic spirituality at its best. Clueless evangelical anti-Catholics need to remember that and seek out the best in Catholic spirituality.