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Thanks to those who answered my previous question about the Lord's Supper and confession. I do have another question. 

It is standard, accepted history that the Catholic Church put the books of the Holy Bible together. This is a common Catholic talking point when debating Protestants (I understand Baptists do not consider themselves Protestant, but it is a catchall term) and one I've used in the past, is that the Catholic Church put the Bible together via the Holy Spirit so how can non-Catholics claim the Roman Church is un-Biblical? How do Baptists square the idea they are the closest to the New Testament churches if they didn't put the Bible together and the Roman Church did? Why would the Lord use an organization many Protestants and Baptists believe is the Whore of Babylon to put together His Scriptures? 

Thanks in advance for any responses.

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The claim that Catholics canonized the bible is false!  The bible was completed during the lifetime of the 12 apostles who helped to write it under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost.  The church at Antioch was the church that saw to the scriptures being written and distributed.  History shows that most Baptistic churches had all or nearly all of the books of the bible before the Catholics even came into existence.  

There are so many verses in the scriptures itself that prove the popery in no way canonized the bible.  Besides, they've rejected God's preserved Word and replaced it with their own and place the traditions of men above scripture as well.  All works of the devil.  The history of the Catholic church itself proves that it is a work of the devil.

I'll let others chime in with scripture as it's time for dinner now in my home.

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God can use all kinds of reprobates and/or heathens to do His will and/or preserve His word. Throughout both the Old and New Testament men like Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod, and the Roman Pilate were used by God to carry out His will. Some of them attempted to wipe out the history of God, His Word, and even His people. Because of Rome men were driven into hiding in caves and remote desert places where the ancient manuscripts of both OT and NT were preserved. So, even the Roman Church was used to carry the scriptures through the wilderness of time where she thought no one but her would be allowed to read and interpret. However, the contrivances and "devices of the crafty" can be and were disappointed by God's will. The Emperor-Priests of Rome had no idea how the truth would spread and lead to Bibles published in the tongues of every nation. 

2 Peter 1:20 "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation."

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The simple answer is that the Catholics accepted the apocryphal books which are clearly not inspired Scripture. 

If they were guided by the Holy Spirit they would not have got that wrong.

And before you go there, the apocrypha was included in the KJV but noted as not inspired.

And of course the OT was settled long before the RC abomination was inexistence, by the people who the RC have constantly tried to destroy - the Jews.

 

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2 hours ago, swathdiver said:

The claim that Catholics canonized the bible is false!  The bible was completed during the lifetime of the 12 apostles who helped to write it under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost.  The church at Antioch was the church that saw to the scriptures being written and distributed.  History shows that most Baptistic churches had all or nearly all of the books of the bible before the Catholics even came into existence.  

There are so many verses in the scriptures itself that prove the popery in no way canonized the bible.  Besides, they've rejected God's preserved Word and replaced it with their own and place the traditions of men above scripture as well.  All works of the devil.  The history of the Catholic church itself proves that it is a work of the devil.

I'll let others chime in with scripture as it's time for dinner now in my home.

When you have time do you mind linking anything on the canon of the Bible being completed before the Catholics (claim to have) created the canon? I'm honestly curious as I haven't ever heard that before.

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Perhaps I'm too simple-minded, but who "canonized" the Bible is moot. The Catholic church didn't write the Bible; they took what was already in existence and put them together.

DaveW makes a valid point; in that, they weren't led by the Spirit in their choosing. Otherwise, they wouldn't have proclaimed the Apocryphal books as belonging. That alone shows they believed error. However, God did use them to bring his word together. Why? I don't know...perhaps it was simply because they had the resources to do so. The books they canonized later spurned the Reformation. So God used them to put something together...that later, and even though the Reformers had major problems...it allowed people to see the truth of God's word and reject Rome's heresies.

Anyone can be given a great tool, but that doesn't mean they know how to use it.

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18 hours ago, swathdiver said:

The claim that Catholics canonized the bible is false!  The bible was completed during the lifetime of the 12 apostles who helped to write it under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost.  The church at Antioch was the church that saw to the scriptures being written and distributed.  History shows that most Baptistic churches had all or nearly all of the books of the bible before the Catholics even came into existence.  

There are so many verses in the scriptures itself that prove the popery in no way canonized the bible.  Besides, they've rejected God's preserved Word and replaced it with their own and place the traditions of men above scripture as well.  All works of the devil.  The history of the Catholic church itself proves that it is a work of the devil.

I'll let others chime in with scripture as it's time for dinner now in my home.

Hello! 
I don't want debates or anything, but can I ask for support for every statement?
It's one of the topics I can't fully understand and defend from my catholic friends. 

It's easy to say anything but can I ask a specific support for all claims?
Thank you so much. 

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21 hours ago, Wayfaring Stranger said:

When you have time do you mind linking anything on the canon of the Bible being completed before the Catholics (claim to have) created the canon? I'm honestly curious as I haven't ever heard that before.

 

5 hours ago, Celina Capalad said:

Hello! 
I don't want debates or anything, but can I ask for support for every statement?
It's one of the topics I can't fully understand and defend from my catholic friends. 

It's easy to say anything but can I ask a specific support for all claims?
Thank you so much. 

It would be my pleasure!  I wrote and collected my notes last night and today am not feeling so well.  In the next few days, Lord willing, I'll write it out and post it here for you both.

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“From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.” – Luke 11:51

 

Jesus was referring to the books of Genesis through 2nd Chronicles which is the last book of the Hebrew bible.  He was saying that the scribes’ guilt was recorded from the beginning to the end of the Hebrew scriptures, omitting the Apocrypha, which did exist at the time.

 

Outside of the bible, Josephus around A.D. 95 referenced that the Hebrew scriptures were completed around the time of Ezra in the 5th Century B.C. and contained all 39 books just as our Old Testament does.

 

“And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:” – John 10:4-5,27

 

“Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.” – John 16:13-15

 

“But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.” – 1 Corinthians 13:10

 

“For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.” – 1Thessalonians 2:13

 

“And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.” – 2 Timothy 3:15-17

 

“Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.” James 1:21

 

“For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” 2 Peter 1:21

 

“Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.” – Jude 3

 

“For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” - Revelation 22:18-19

 

These verses speak for themselves.  Ask yourselves this question, how can a man alive during the days of the 12 Apostles be thoroughly furnished unto all good works, able to learn all doctrine, to reprove, to correct and instruct in righteousness if he has to wait around hundreds of years for the Catholic Church to give him a book to learn all of it?

 

            The verses in Revelations attest that the bible is complete, no man shall add to it or take away from it.  The God that spake the universe into existence surely saw to the Holy Bible’s completion and preservation without help from the papists.

 

            Outside of the bible, men such as Irenaeus (125-192), made 1,800 quotations from the New Testament in his writings and only acknowledge the four gospels as scripture.  Clement of Alexandria (150-217) called the books “divine scriptures” and also quoted from the four gospels and most of the other books of the New Testament in his writings.  Tertullian (150-220) made over 7,000 references to the New Testament and referred to them as scripture as well.

           

            The Latin Itala translation was made in the 2nd century and contains all the books of today’s New Testament.  In 1740 at the Ambrosian Library in Milan Italy, a list dating to the later half of the 2nd century contained all the books of the New Testament.

 

            So many overlook and ignore the work of the Holy Spirit in writing and circulating God’s Word!

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Another fact, that can be clearly discovered, is that as early as the middle to the end of the second century, before there was a Catholic church to canonize anything, the entire New testament scriptures, all the books, without an Apocrypha, had already been translated in full into Syricak and Itala, and was being translated into other languages. This tells us that it was complete and recgnized as such well before the Nicea council did anything.

As far as i can tell, the point of what the Council did, was to clear up the confusion being made by the many so-called 'Gnostic' books that were popping up in the 2nd and 3rd centuries, that claimed authorship by the Apostles and those close to them-I believe the point of the coincil was to determine, through all these book, which were truly scripture and which were false. All they ultimately did was to recognize the scriptures already being used, as the canon of scripture. Everyone else alr4eady had-the waters were just muddied by the false writings claiming authenticity.

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14 hours ago, swathdiver said:

These verses speak for themselves.  Ask yourselves this question, how can a man alive during the days of the 12 Apostles be thoroughly furnished unto all good works, able to learn all doctrine, to reprove, to correct and instruct in righteousness if he has to wait around hundreds of years for the Catholic Church to give him a book to learn all of it?

 I totally agree with the scripture and thus omitted it. The only thing I would like to point out is that God can use reprobates and those with divisive goals to complete His will.

            The verses in Revelations attest that the bible is complete, no man shall add to it or take away from it.  The God that spake the universe into existence surely saw to the Holy Bible’s completion and preservation without help from the papists.

 Or the God that spoke the universe into existence is also able to use the papists confounding their wrongful purposes and that right before their very eyes.

            Outside of the bible, men such as Irenaeus (125-192), made 1,800 quotations from the New Testament in his writings and only acknowledge the four gospels as scripture.  Clement of Alexandria (150-217) called the books “divine scriptures” and also quoted from the four gospels and most of the other books of the New Testament in his writings.  Tertullian (150-220) made over 7,000 references to the New Testament and referred to them as scripture as well.

 I never studied this out before thanks.

            The Latin Itala translation was made in the 2nd century and contains all the books of today’s New Testament.  In 1740 at the Ambrosian Library in Milan Italy, a list dating to the later half of the 2nd century contained all the books of the New Testament.

 

            So many overlook and ignore the work of the Holy Spirit in writing and circulating God’s Word!

I like everything you put forward as proof. I just wanted to mention if God wanted to use the Roman Church for preservation of His word He could.

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11 minutes ago, swathdiver said:

Yes, you fellas are right, the Lord has and does use his enemies for His glory!

I'll try to repost on Antioch tomorrow after re-writing it.  Maybe a word or phrase is causing the error?

swath, you brought out some things I'd never thought about. Thank you my friend.

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