View attachment 20639 1. The Bible is inspired by God
“every Writing [is] God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that [is] in righteousness, that the man of God may be fitted — for every good work having been completed.”
2 Timothy 3:16-17 YLT98
“this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition, for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.”
2 Peter 1:20-21 YLT98
These are ten key points, on How we got the Bible.
NOT sure
where you got your information – but I can only hazard to
guess that it was from a
Protestant source.
Unfortunately for you – this information is not only
incomplete – some of it is
false and
misleading . . .
For
example:
1. The Bible
IS inspired by God – but
HOW do you know this?
In
other words –
WHO told you it was?
2. The Bible is compiled of
72 Bools –
7 of them were
deleted from the
OT Canon – along with portions of
Esther and
Daniel at the whim of your
Protestant Fathers in the 16th century.
3. The OT was written in
Hebrew – and it was translated into
Greek about
200 years
before Christ. This version, known as the
Septuagint because it was translated by
70 scholars This is the version, which
INCLUDES the
7 Books known as the
Deuterocanonical Book is the one that
Jesus and the NT writers studied from. We
KNOW this by the almost
200 references to it on the pages of the
NT.
4. The
72 Books of the OT were paty of the
OPEN Jewish Canon
during the life of
Jesus Christ. The OT Canon was
closed at the rabbinical school at
Jabneh not long after the
2nd Jewish Revolt in the early
2nd century. It was decided that the
7 Deuterocanonical Books should be
removed after debate about their effectiveness on
Christian converts. The
main advocate for this was
Rabbi Akiva who had earlier pronounced that the
“REAL” Messiah was a man named
Simon Kokkbar. So –
YOUR Protestant OT Canon was declared by a
POST-Christ Jewish council by a
FALSE Prophet (Akiva) who proclaimed a
FALSE Christ (Kokkbar).
The Canon of Scripture as a
whole (72 Books) was declared by the
Catholic Church at the
Council of Rome in
382.
- It was
reiterated at the
- 11 years after that, it was confirmed at the
Synod of Hippo (393).
- 4 years later, at the
Council (or Synod) of Carthage (397), it was yet again confirmed.
- 7 years later, in
405, in a letter from
Pope Innocent I to Exsuperius, Bishop of Toulouse, he reiterated the canon.
- 14 years after that, at the
2nd Council (Synod) of Carthage (419) the canon was again formally confirmed.
- The Canon was
closed at the
Council of Trent in the
16th century because of the
perversions happening within
Protestantism and the random
editing and
deleting of books from the Canon.
5. The
Bible was transcribed by the
Catholic Church down through the centuries until the iinvention of the
printing press in the
15th century.It waas
also the
Catholic Church that added
Chapter and Verse in the Middle Ages.
6. You got
this on
right . . .
7. You got
this on right
also. . .
8.
The Dead Sea Scrolls ALSO confirm the
usage and reliability of the
Septuagint that contains the
Deuterocanonical Books that were
deleted by Protestants.
9. Probably correct.
10. In
AD 200 – there was
NO complete Canon of the Bible yet – as the 1st time it was officially declared was at the Council of Rome in 382 (see
#4 above). So this one is
ALSO wrong . . .
1. The Bible is inspired by God
