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Post by Cepha on Mar 24, 2008 17:38:45 GMT -5
Your Priest? Your Pastor? The Holy Bible?
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Post by righteousone on Mar 25, 2008 17:40:43 GMT -5
My roman papacy, the Catechism and of course holy Scripture. But most of all, it is within me that I am a Catholic and love my faith.
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Post by Cepha on Mar 25, 2008 20:59:47 GMT -5
I love the look on non-Catholic's faces when I tell them I'm a ""!  They have no where to go after that! First I follow Jesus and He told us that we are to follow His Apostles and whoever they chose to succeed them and whoever they chose to succeed them and so on and so on and so on and 265 Popes later...here we are! |
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Post by emily445455 on Mar 26, 2008 17:20:01 GMT -5
The Bible. |
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Post by cradlecathlic27 on Mar 26, 2008 20:39:10 GMT -5
I dont know, if it were only the Bible, would we even go to church?
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Post by emily445455 on Mar 26, 2008 21:12:06 GMT -5
I would. The Bible talks about how fellowship with other Believers is important.
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Post by Cepha on Apr 6, 2008 10:15:12 GMT -5
Good thing for The Church that created The Bible, or else, you'd have nothing to tell you how to be a Christian.  
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Post by emily445455 on Apr 6, 2008 20:23:07 GMT -5
God created the Bible, and the RCC weren't the only people that had it.  |
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Post by Cepha on Apr 6, 2008 21:16:23 GMT -5
God created the Bible, and the RCC weren't the only people that had it. God did not create The Bible. God chose men to create The Bible. And the Church were the only people who had it for 1,100 years "after" it created it. |
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Post by emily445455 on Apr 6, 2008 21:31:58 GMT -5
God created it thru the hands of men. It is still the creation of God though, men couldn't have created it without God telling them what to write. Other people had it...just not in it's entirity because they weren't allowed to have it. So they would get whatever they could, and study that...so usually their beliefs were very faulty, but they did what they could.
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Post by Cepha on Apr 6, 2008 21:53:38 GMT -5
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Post by Cepha on Apr 6, 2008 21:57:24 GMT -5
Other people had it...just not in it's entirity because they weren't allowed to have it. So they would get whatever they could, and study that...so usually their beliefs were very faulty, but they did what they could. This is precisely what happened when The Protestants took out the 7 books out of The Holy Bible 1,100 years "after" The Holy Bible was revealed to the world through The Church Jesus started and that He chose to use to create The Bible. They did with what they could. This is why the Protestant attempt to "re-form" The Catholic Church failed miserably and they themselves would go on to war within Protestantism. Martin Luther hunted down Zwingli and tried to have him burned at the stake. That's why there are so many Protestant churches now. They have a faulty "version" of The Holy Bible and don't have the full truth. While The Catholic Church has always remained what The Apostles Creed has referred to as "one, holy, Catholic and apostolic" Church. |
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Post by emily445455 on Apr 7, 2008 14:55:37 GMT -5
No I meant when the RCC didn't let the common people have the Bible, some people had to hide what parts of the Bible they had and study that. That's why their beleifs were shaky.
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Post by Cepha on Apr 7, 2008 16:31:17 GMT -5
No I meant when the RCC didn't let the common people have the Bible, some people had to hide what parts of the Bible they had and study that. That's why their beleifs were shaky. You've got to be kidding right? Hello? People couldn't read back then. Only the rich and affluent could read. And Bibles were being produced by hand and it tool years to produce just one Bible. As for "hiding" parts, who was it that hid "7" books when they created a newer modern "version" of The Holy Bible in the 16th Century? Also, please cite a source for your statement that The Church (again, there is no RCC) kept The Bible from Chrisitians. |
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Post by emily445455 on Apr 7, 2008 16:40:29 GMT -5
Then it should have been the CC's first priority to teach them to read and give them Bibles.
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Post by cradlecathlic27 on Apr 7, 2008 16:41:42 GMT -5
i think they did teach the Bible..
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Post by emily445455 on Apr 7, 2008 16:43:40 GMT -5
When you have the authority to teach out of a book no one can read, you have the oppurtunity to make up whatever you want it to say. Like indulgances or whatever it was called.
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Post by cradlecathlic27 on Apr 7, 2008 16:48:16 GMT -5
well, uh...everyone knows what is/was in the Bible now! and can see that they were not making anything up..
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Post by emily445455 on Apr 7, 2008 16:49:17 GMT -5
Indulgances were ok then?
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Post by Cepha on Apr 7, 2008 16:52:03 GMT -5
Then it should have been the CC's first priority to teach them to read and give them Bibles. Hello? Who do you think it was that was giving free reading lessons? The Jesuits! Didn't you know this? Why do you talk without knowing your history? The Church "was" teaching peasants how to read. Matter of fact, it was The Catholic Church that contracted Gutenburg (the inventor of The Printing Press) to immediately begin printing Bibles for mass distribution. Who told you that we kept the Bible back from Christians? You still haven't answered that question. That's a bad accusation to make without a citeable source M. |
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