Not interesting, as Catholic teachings conflict with the plain text of the Bible.
Here's one example:
Jesus said that people would know he was the true Messiah by the fact of his being in the earth three days and three nights, just as Jonah was in the whale. But the Pope proclaimed that everyone must celebrate "Good Friday" as the day of the Crucifixion, which would mean only a day and a half in the earth and Jesus wouldn't really be the Messiah. The Crucifixion actually took place on Wednesday. And the Resurrection didn't take place at sunrise, as most people imagine. The three Mary's came to the tomb before sunrise and found the tomb already empty and everything quiet and still. This means that it must have happened a good while earlier, since the Roman guards were gone completely in fear.
People don't read every word, or at least don't comprehend what it all really says. For most of its existence, the Catholic Church has tried to keep what the Bible says away from the people and just tell them what the church wants them to believe it says. Mass was in Latin up until the 1960s for that reason. I went to Mass in 1959 and had no clue what in the hell was going on. It was all in Latin, which seemed nonproductive to me. It was obvious to me, as a small boy, that they were keeping secrets.
They didn't write it though. They just had a hand in which books comprise the official canon. I read what I want. I've read the entire Bible and Apocrypha, the "lost" books, the pseudepigrapha, the church fathers, and more. I've also read some of the books of other religions.
Regardless of how the compilation happened, the content is truthful, provably so in most places.
My point, that you completely glossed over (go figure) was that Catholic teachings do not conflict with the Bible. They compiled the Bible. If anyone understands the Bible teachings, its the Catholic religion, who loved the books of the Bible so much they spent time and resources to compile them and then sent missionaries into the world to teach people what was in the Bible.
"as Catholic teachings conflict with the plain text of the Bible."
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Not interesting, as Catholic teachings conflict with the plain text of the Bible.
Here's one example:
Jesus said that people would know he was the true Messiah by the fact of his being in the earth three days and three nights, just as Jonah was in the whale. But the Pope proclaimed that everyone must celebrate "Good Friday" as the day of the Crucifixion, which would mean only a day and a half in the earth and Jesus wouldn't really be the Messiah. The Crucifixion actually took place on Wednesday. And the Resurrection didn't take place at sunrise, as most people imagine. The three Mary's came to the tomb before sunrise and found the tomb already empty and everything quiet and still. This means that it must have happened a good while earlier, since the Roman guards were gone completely in fear.
People don't read every word, or at least don't comprehend what it all really says. For most of its existence, the Catholic Church has tried to keep what the Bible says away from the people and just tell them what the church wants them to believe it says. Mass was in Latin up until the 1960s for that reason. I went to Mass in 1959 and had no clue what in the hell was going on. It was all in Latin, which seemed nonproductive to me. It was obvious to me, as a small boy, that they were keeping secrets.
Catholics compiled the Bible.
You've been lied to.
They didn't write it though. They just had a hand in which books comprise the official canon. I read what I want. I've read the entire Bible and Apocrypha, the "lost" books, the pseudepigrapha, the church fathers, and more. I've also read some of the books of other religions.
Regardless of how the compilation happened, the content is truthful, provably so in most places.
My point, that you completely glossed over (go figure) was that Catholic teachings do not conflict with the Bible. They compiled the Bible. If anyone understands the Bible teachings, its the Catholic religion, who loved the books of the Bible so much they spent time and resources to compile them and then sent missionaries into the world to teach people what was in the Bible.
"as Catholic teachings conflict with the plain text of the Bible."
Simply untrue.