The cabal has be writing our history for a long time. Why and how was the Bible off limits to there control? I am finding it hard to believe in anything as the world unravels. The evil doers stop at nothing to control us. Some how the Bible was off limits to them? I have faith in God due to the fact we are here and his blessings. I just question anything that a human had a part in that is very old.
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The real truth is Christ left a Church not a book. That is, for all of its problems, the Catholic Church. Don’t get me started on the current corrupt leadership. I didn’t stop being an American when Obama was President. The Church fathers assembled the Bible by selecting which texts were accurate and which were not guided by the Holy Spirit. They even had to do this to the Old Testament which Jews of the day argued about which texts were correct. The Catholics fathers went with the Greek version because that was most of the educated people used.
When the Protestants started removing books from the Bible they used the argument they found Hebrew texts that excluded some Old Testament texts. But those texts were written after Christ and the Jews of the time were trying to rewrite the texts to show Christ wasn’t who he claimed to be. Even some modern Jews such as those in Ethiopia have Old Testament with the same texts as the Catholic Bible.
My favorite translation is the English Douay-Rheims (1609) with the Latin Vulgate (405 AD) side by side. The English reads similar to KJV because it was done around the same time.
Their are only two types of Christianity. Faith Alone in the Death of Jesus on the Cross or Faith in Jesus plus all my own good works that I can add to Jesus's death that will somehow tip the balance to my favor ( hopefully ) someday and God will owe me a place in Heaven. Someone who is trusting in their own good works to get to Heaven can never be sure they have done enough and never have that security. Born Again Christians who trust only in Jesus serve Him out of Gratitude. Salvation by Works religions serve Him out of fear of not making it to Heaven someday.
Ephesians 2:8-10 "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them."
Martin Luther was a Catholic monk studying the bible when the great truth sprang from the pages " The Just Shall Live by Faith " that truth is repeated in the old and new testament, "Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."
When you get to Heaven someday and start boasting about all your good works you did to get to heaven, while Saints are singing Praises to God for saving them, Angels will pick you up and carry you away and cast you into outer darkness.
"Fear not him who can kill the body and afterwards can do no more, but Fear Him who after He has killed has power to cast both soul and body into hell."
Yeah that’s a common Protestant misunderstanding of Catholicism. Catholics in no way think we earn our way into being saved. It is only Christ who saves us as demonstrated by the repentant thief on the cross next to Christ.
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Faith is required but we can earn our way out of salvation. Judas had faith in Christ. The demons know exactly who Christ is and that he saves but they reject him. We can have faith that Christ saves us but reject him through sin and lose his grace for our salvation. Like the good thief all we have to do is confess our sins to Christ and he will do the rest. We believe you can have perfect contrition and be saved but Christ left his Church to minister to his people. Part of that is the continuation of the priesthood from the Jewish Priests to Catholic Priests. Instead of sacrificing animals to repent for our sins we can go to the Priest who acts in the person of Christ who himself forgives our sins.
Luther didn’t like this idea which is why he was so bitter about the book of James.