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HOW THE CATHOLIC CHURCH PRESERVE ITS COMPILED

BOOK CALLED “BIBLE”?

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The very first Christian Bible was produced by the Catholic
Church

in the 4th century and approved for general Christian use by

the local councils at Rome (382AD), Hippo (393) and Carthage
(397AD). Catholic bishops had convened to decide on which
books would be part of the New Testament canon, considering
that there were hundreds of letters/epistles, and gospels that
exist in the first 300 years of Christianity. Finally, the Church
officially decided that only 27 books were part of the New Open
Testament, and added it to 46 books of the Septuagint Old
Testament scriptures, making a one single 73- book bound
called the Bible.

Categories
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The term “Bible” is not even written in the Bible. It was coined
by Pope Siricius. The chapters and verses were made by Select One

Catholic Cardinals named Stephen Langton & Hugo de Caro,

and Sanctes Pagnino, respectively. The purpose of “chapters
Archives
and vereses” is to let the readers easily memorize certain
passage in the Bible. The very first printed Bible was produced
by a Catholic inventor named Johannes Guttenberg. He had Select Month
produced several printed bibles coming from the Latina
Vulgata. Prior to that, all Bibles were written by hand through
Catholic monks inside the “Scriptorium”. It took for them about
10 years to finish a single complete bible.

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The Bible is used for Church Liturgy

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Non-catholics had accused that the Catholic Church had
discouraged its members to read the Bible. This is not true. In
fact, at every Catholic Mass throughout the world

two readings from the general body of the Bible, and one from
the Gospels are being read everyday. Almost all Catholic
homes have a Bible (as Bible is a pre-requisite during
Sacrament of Marriage) and the Bible is taught in Catholic
schools (as it is a perennial tradition).

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The Bible was chained in the Middle Ages in order to preserve
it from deterioration and prevent from being stolen.

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Non-Catholics also accused that the Catholic Church chained
the Bible in the Middle Ages to deprive its members from
reading the Bible. This myth has come about because Bibles
were often locked away in Churches in the past, but that was
not

to prevent people from having access. It was only made to

prevent them from breing stolen. Remember that those few
Bibles were hand-written and were incredibly valuable due to
scarcity. Just like a phone directory, owners should attached it
to a chord/string in order that users will not misplace it or bring
it anywhere.

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Furthermore, non-Catholics think that the Church forbade
people from

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reading the Bible by putting it on the Index of Forbidden Books,

but the Bibles placed on the Index were

protestant versions (lacking 7 books or badly translated

versions). The most famous of which is the King James
Version (KJV) which Catholics are not supposed to use.

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Historically, it was recorded that protestants also chained their
Bible for atleast 300 years. Yet, we did not accused them for
depriving their members in accessing the Bible

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Catholics Burned Erroneous Bibles to Preserve the Authentic
Bible

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Non-Catholics frequently accused the Catholic Church for
burning bibles so that nobody can read it. Again, that is an
inaccurate history. If the Catholic Church truly wanted to
destroy the Bible, then the Church had ample opportunity to do
so for 1,500 years. But why we still have bibles now?

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The Church did not oppose faithful vernacular translations, but
only to those heretical and distorted Bible versions (e.g.
Wycliffe and Tyndale Bible). It is necessary to destroy those
erroneous translations in order to preserve the integrity of the
Holy Scripture. If people would have different interpretations to
a single and the same bible, how much more to a distorted
bible translations?

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Protestant Vs. Protestant

Even to this modern day, the best practical way to preserve an

authentic or original product is to burned those fake or fictitous
imitations which were captured by the authority. This is actually
what the King of England did to those translations made by
Wycliffe and Tyndale Bibles. It was the protestant King Henry
VIII who ordered the killing of Tyndale, because the Anglican
Church considered Tyndale as heretic. In addition, King
Richard II of England also ordered to burned the Bible
translations made by Wycliffe, after the Catholic Church
declared him as heretic. John Calvin ordered the killing and
burning of Michael Servetus writings and Bible translations.

Historically, protestants reformers also destroyed many books

of their fellow protestant reformers, that contradict to their
teachings.

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To non-Catholics: If the Wycliffe and Tyndale Bibles were good
translations, why no protestant uses them today? 

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CONCLUSION:
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There is no escaping to this fact, that the Bible is a Catholic
book, and without the Catholic Church, non-Catholics have no
Bible to use in their religious business. The father of
protestantism named Martin Luther even admitted it honestly,
when he said :

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”We are compelled to concede that without the Catholic
Church, we knew nothing about the Word of God (Bible)” –
Martin Luther

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Another famous non-Catholic Bible scholar from Biblical
Archeology Society named Dr. Peter Flint – the first man to
translate the Dead Sea Scrolls also supported it, when he said:

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” Without the Catholic Church, you have no Bible”

– Dr. Peter Flint, Ph.D

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