Why do christians place so much faith in the bible?
I’m just gonna say something… if you read history constantine had nothing to do with the bible election and the bible was chosen by a council of hieracy. Yes that is right the books might be right but they are not believed to be truly inspired doesn’t mean there wrong most protestants will tell you anything that isn’t in the bible is false that is wrong. King James bible was written long time after the Latin vulgate was the first translated and yes the english is obscure such as referring to cattles as unicorns… Yes your right there was no Bible but it is false to assume the bible was commissioned by constatine i know alot belief this but this is myth please read actyal history.
Every religion loses its way for the very fact it is a religion. Still Christians place so much faith in the Bible because it is there holy book. It is there religion. A God is only a God at a mental level because he has followers. You can not persuade anyone against what they believe so easily. They know the Bible is limited by men, but the very fact it is the book makes it real. It is a divine spiritual ideal. To everyone else it is paper and binding.
The study of Scripture and the Church Fathers, we see that, not only is the Catholic faith biblical, Catholicism is Bible Christianity par excellence. Because the Old and New Testament Scriptures are the divinely-revealed, written Word of God, Catholics venerate the Scriptures as they venerate the Lord’s body. But Catholics do not believe that God has given us His divine Revelation in Christ exclusively through Scripture. Catholics also believe that God’s Revelation comes to us through the Apostolic Tradition and teaching authority of the Church. What Church? Scripture reveals this Church to be the one Jesus Christ built upon the rock of Saint Peter (Matt. 16:18). By giving Peter the keys of authority (Matt. 16:19), Jesus appointed Peter as the chief steward over His earthly kingdom (cf. Isaiah. 22:19-22). Jesus also charged Peter to be the source of strength for the rest of the apostles (Luke 22:32) and the earthly shepherd of Jesus’ flock (John 21:15-17). Jesus further gave Peter, an
The early church used Greek. The books we know as the Old Testament were those Jewish scriptures that had been translated into Greek for the Hellenist Jews and were known as the Septuagint. The western church became the state religion in 321AD when Constantine was emperor and both the Old and New Testament were translated into Latin, the official language of the Roman Empire, by a group of scholars led by Jerome. It was Jerome’s scheme that divided the Bible into Chapters and Verses, but he did not choose the books – they were already well established. The Jewish religion decided to go through all of its scripture and decided to omit a large number of books. Following the Reformation, Luther decided that the books included in Jerome’s bible, but omitted from the Jewish canon should be downgraded and these are known among protestant churches as apochrypha. The Catholic church calls them Deuterocanonical which just goes to show that they’re better at Latin than the protestants. In the mo
