“It’s a matter of Logic. Much of the New Testament didn’t exist until after Christ’s death“
I didn’t write this like I intended. I meant many of the events in the New Testament occurred after Christ’s death.
As Catholics we believe in the Truth. Just because people were pagans didn’t mean they were cut off from the Truth. Aristotle used reason to get pretty close to the Truth. So one of the tools the Apostles used was to talk to people and learn their culture and discover what aspects of the Truth existed in their culture and build on those. Those that were not compatible needed to be pruned away.
Of course many of the books existed before 100AD. But there were also others not included. But The Apostles didn’t have to teach from the written word they actually knew Christ so taught from memory. We obviously have letters when they had to clear up misunderstandings of the various people. And after hundreds of years it should be obvious many false versions would be created. Which is why to combat this the Church had to formalize the Bible into the current cannon.
The Orthodox and some Jews also use the deuterocanonical books. Luther removed them to conform to his theology. I think there was a warning in the Bible about that.
The fact is if you only believe in the Bible you are free to interpret it anyway you want which ends up making it meaningless.
Hello u/trout007, I'm just combing through old posts/comments referencing Catholicism so that I can let people know that c/Catholic was created a few days ago. It's pretty quiet right now, but I'm hoping we can build it up. Next time you're on .win come by and check it out! God bless!
Thanks for the conversation.
“It’s a matter of Logic. Much of the New Testament didn’t exist until after Christ’s death“
I didn’t write this like I intended. I meant many of the events in the New Testament occurred after Christ’s death.
As Catholics we believe in the Truth. Just because people were pagans didn’t mean they were cut off from the Truth. Aristotle used reason to get pretty close to the Truth. So one of the tools the Apostles used was to talk to people and learn their culture and discover what aspects of the Truth existed in their culture and build on those. Those that were not compatible needed to be pruned away.
Of course many of the books existed before 100AD. But there were also others not included. But The Apostles didn’t have to teach from the written word they actually knew Christ so taught from memory. We obviously have letters when they had to clear up misunderstandings of the various people. And after hundreds of years it should be obvious many false versions would be created. Which is why to combat this the Church had to formalize the Bible into the current cannon.
The Orthodox and some Jews also use the deuterocanonical books. Luther removed them to conform to his theology. I think there was a warning in the Bible about that.
The fact is if you only believe in the Bible you are free to interpret it anyway you want which ends up making it meaningless.
Hello u/trout007, I'm just combing through old posts/comments referencing Catholicism so that I can let people know that c/Catholic was created a few days ago. It's pretty quiet right now, but I'm hoping we can build it up. Next time you're on .win come by and check it out! God bless!