Re: Is God Catholic?


"bam" <mcca5761@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >>> CB wrote:
> >>> > On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 23:59:30 -0500, "bam"
> >>> > <mcca5761@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> > wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> >>
> >>> >> "CB" <country2000@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >>> >>> On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 17:54:14 -0500, "bam"
> >>> >>> <mcca5761@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> "CB" <country2000@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >>> >>>> news:90iho1du7rfatl2bl5k9g5i36m9jjn9q8u@xxxxxxxxxx
> >>> >>>>> On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 02:55:27 -0500, "bam"
> >>> >>>>> <mcca5761@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> >>>>> wrote:
> >>> >>>>>
> >>> >>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>> "CB" <country2000@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
> >>> >>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>>> bamboozled, you know it's not nice to lie.
> >>> >>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>> What if the Nazis are looking for your mother and you're hiding
> >>> >>>>>> her in the
> >>> >>>>>> basement?
> >>> >>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>> Besides, I'm telling the truth.
> >>> >>>>>
> >>> >>>>> You never tell the truth.
> >>> >>>>> You just believe your own lies and the lies of the rcc.
> >>> >>>>> How sad.
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> The RCC created the Bible you claim to worship,
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> That's a lie & you know it.
> >>> >>> It is God's Word not the word of the rcc.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> The RCC created the Bible. Study history Danny.
> >>> >
> >>> > I did.
> >>> > The Bible was created by God not the rcc.
> >>> > But nice try.
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>> The word of the rcc is called a catechism and it's filled with
lies
> >>> >>> and distortions.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Whatsoever ye bind on earth is bound in Heaven.
> >>> >
> >>> > Nice try but ajust a little biblical study will prove your attempt
to
> >>> > twist
> >>> > Scripture. I guess it's a catholic thing.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> BAM
> >>> >>
> >>>
> >>> No, the Bible is a compilation of books by many authors. God actually
> >>> did
> >>> not create 'the Bible' per se. That's a human invention, one made for
> >>> convenience. We still could have all the books as separate entities
i.e.
> >> the
> >>> Book of Job, the Book of Revelations etc. etc. and not have them bound
> >>> together as a single book "The Bible" and still have the entire thing.
> >>>
> >>> Furthermore, we can add and subtract to the Bible as [supposedly]
> >> inspired.
> >>> Heck, some debate as to which books belong in the Bible to this day.
> >>> When
> >>> the Canon was first developed there was debate then AFAIK. The
decision
> >>> as
> >>> to which books were to be included came from debate and discussion and
> >>> decisions of *men*. Should someone read from one of the Gnostic
Gospels
> >>> I
> >>> would doubt anyone who says that none of the words therein were
inspired
> >> by
> >>> God because some probably were. Remember the scripture that the world
> >> could
> >>> not hold all the books that could be written about Him? Bible worship?
> >>> No.
> >>> Instead: Jesus worship - then you have the complete edition.
> >>
> >> Well put. Limiting God to what we recognise as the Bible is very
> >> restrictive. God, through men, selected certain of the texts about him
> >> to
> >> represent him, but, as you say, much more could be said.
> >>
> >
> > And if it cannot be verified by the Bible it is of men, not God.
>
> The Bible verifies nothing. Only an infallible interpreter can verify the
> meaning of scripture.
>
> By the time we Catholics "put the Bible out", the Church was already older
> than the first Pilgrim to set foot on America's shores.
>
> What did the early Christians do? Nothing until a copy was available?
>
> You believe that jesus rose from the dead because the Bible says so. Why
did
> the early Christians believe it? There was no Bible at the time. Why did
the
> pagans believe Paul? Did they ask for scriptural proof?

Jesus didn't rise from the dead because the Bible says so. The Bible says
so because Jesus rose from the dead. That's the important point that they
are missing.

God bless,
Stephen

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