The Catholic Church did not Give the world The Bible!THE CATHOLIC BIBLE. The Jews did not preserve these books down. These added books in the Catholic Bible are known collectively as the Apocrypha.They include such books as Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, etc. Answer: The difference between the Catholic version of the Bible and other translations is that it has additional books contained in the Old Testament that other translations (NKJV, NIV, etc.) do not.

Please notice the following from Catholic sources: This is another of their attempts to exalt the church as an authority in addition to the Bible. 1 John 4: 1-6, we are warned My dear friends, not every spirit is to be trusted, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets are at large in the world.CBI is a comprehensive, three-year Bible study program: one year focuses on the Old Testament, one year on the New Testament, and a third year on the ministry.Roman Catholic Faith Examined! Did The Catholic Church Give Us The Bible? Catholics say Yes! Truth says No!Tell us if we have misrepresented Catholic FaithDid The Catholic Church Give Us The Bible ?Catholics contend that the whole world is indebted to the Roman Catholic church for the existence of the Bible. The Bible tells us that there are many false teachers who can work miracles. THE OLD TESTAMENTThe Catholic Church has the authority to teach. The Old Testament has 45 (or 46) books and the New Testament has 27.

'It was the Catholic Church and no other which selected and listed the inspired books of both the Old Testament and the New Testament.If you can accept the Bible or any part of it as inspired Word of God, you can do so only because the Catholic Church says it is.' ( The Bible is a Catholic Book, p. 'It is only by the divine authority of the Catholic Church that Christians know that the scripture is the word of God, and what books certainly belong to the Bible.' ( The Question Box, p. 'The only authority which non-Catholics have for the inspiration of the Scriptures is the authority of the Catholic Church.' ( The Faith of Millions, p. 'If she had not declared the books composing the New Testament to be inspired word of God, we would not know it.

However, it is an attempt to weaken the Bible as the sole authority and to replace it with their man-made church. The Bible does not owe its existence to the Catholic Church, but to the authority, power and providence of God.It would seem unnecessary for the Catholic Church to make the boastful claim of giving the Bible to the world when both it and so-called Protestantism accept the Bible as a revelation from God. The Catholics are wrong, therefore, in their assumption that the Bible is authoritative only because of the Catholic Church.

'And since the books of the Bible constituting both the Old and the New Testament were determined solely by the authority of the Catholic Church, without the Church there would have been no Bible, and hence no Protestantism.' ( The Faith of Millions, p. The Church gathered them up, selected them, pronounced judgment on them rejecting some, which she defined and declared not to be canonical, because not inspired adopting others as being inspired, and therefore canonical.' ( What Is the Bible? p. The separate treatises, each of them inspired, were lying, as it were dispersedly easy to confound with others, that were uninspired.

It is not the same institution as disclosed in the New Testament. The Roman Catholic Church was not fully developed until several hundred years after the New Testament was written. However, we firmly deny that the writers of the New Testament were members of the Roman Catholic Church as we know it today. When we consider the word 'catholic' as meaning 'universal,' we readily admit that the writers were 'catholic' in that sense they were members of the church universal-the church of Christ which is described in the New Testament Scriptures (Col.

First, indeed, because the oracles of God were entrusted to them.' (Rom. Paul said, 'What advantage then remains to the Jew, or what is the use of circumcision? Much in every respect. The Old Testament came through the Jews (God's chosen people of old) who had the holy oracles entrusted to them. Surely the Catholic Church cannot claim that it gave us the Old Testament Scriptures. God Himself is the author of the New Testament.The Catholic officials above claim that without the Catholic Church there would be no Bible they argue that mankind can accept the Scriptures only on the basis of the Catholic Church which gathered the books and determined which were inspired.

The Catholic Church does not allow a bishop to marry, while the Bible says 'he must be married.' Furthermore, if the Bible is a Catholic book, why did they write the Bible as it is, and feel the necessity of putting footnotes at the bottom of the page in effort to keep their subject from believing what is in the text?The following list give a summation of what we have been trying to emphasize. For if a man cannot rule his own household, how is he to take care of the church of God?' (1 Tim. Furthermore, He understood that God-fearing men and women would be able to discern by evidence (external and internal) which books were of God and which were not thus, He never raised questions and doubts concerning the gathering of the inspired books.If the Bible is a Catholic book, why does it nowhere mention the Catholic Church? Why is there no mention of a pope, a cardinal, an archbishop, a parish priest, a nun, or a member of any other Catholic order? If the Bible is a Catholic book, why is auricular confession, indulgences, prayers to the saints, adoration of Mary, veneration of relics and images, and many other rites and ceremonies of the Catholic Church, left out of it?If the Bible is a Catholic book, how can Catholics account for the passage, 'A bishop then, must be blameless, married but once, reserved, prudent, of good conduct, hospitable, a teacher.He should rule well his own household, keeping his children under control and perfectly respectful. He urged the people of His day to follow the Old Testament Scriptures as the infallible guide, not because man or any group of men has sanctioned them as such, but because they came from God. Christ did not tell the people, as Catholics do today, that they could accept the Scriptures only on the basis of the authority of those who gathered them and declared them to be inspired. The Septuagint Version was translated by seventy scholars at Alexandria, Egypt around the year 227 B.C., and this was the version Christ and His apostles used.

Why does it show that all Christians are priests? (1 Pet. Why does it teach against the adoration of Mary? (Luke 11:27-28). Why does it condemn clerical dress? (Matt.

Why does it teach that there is one mediator instead of many? (1 Tim. Why does it teach that Christ is the only foundation and not the apostle Peter? (1 Cor. Why does it forbid us to address religious leaders as 'father'? (Matt. Why does it teach that baptism is immersion instead of pouring? (Col. Why does it condemn the making and adoration of images? (Ex. Why does it teach that all Christians are saints? (1 Cor.

The Catholic Church therefore gave to the people and the World, the Bible as we have it today.

The Catholic Bible