IS OUR BIBLE COMPLETE?
1. Do all Bibles contain exactly the same books as the King James Authorized or Revised Versions?
NO! The Douay Bible of the Roman catholic Church contains what is known as the Apocrypha. This compromises seven books; namely: Tobit, Baruch [{NOTE JB) Baruch was the scribe for Jeremiah)] Judith, Wisdom,, Ecclesiasticus, and the First and Second Maccabees, together with six (6) additional chapters to the Book of Ester, and seventy additional verses in the third (3rd) chapter of Daniel, giving "The Story of the Three children."
Please take to heart-------Revelation 22:18-19 "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."
NOTE (JB).. So why do the Roman leaders insist that these books THEY HAVE ADDED to Canon?
A: because there are verses within that backs up their doctrine dogmas of "Praying to the Dead" as well as Purgatory, a kind of HALF-WAY HOUSE TO THEIR HELL! Please make note: any even a quick study of the Bible's Revelation will let anyone reader know that there is NOT NOW a fiery hell! The Lake of Fire shall be upon this earth ONLY after Jesus' Second Coming {John 14:1-3} plus the 1,000 years with Jesus for the Saints, [Revelation 20:4] . The PURPOSE? to rid earth of all sin and death as well as human pollution on and within this very same earth! Plus take note in Revelation there are TWO Resurrections---all the unbelievers and the unjust , NEVER leave this earth! They Perish at Christ's return!
Revelation 20:6 "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years".
Isaiah 13:9-11 " Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible."
Matthew 24:27-28 "For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together."
NOTE(JB) At His return John 14:1-3 will become history! All the other living shall perish, and the unbelievers still in graves, will remain for the 1,000 years. Thus only Satan and the fallen angels shall remain living, plus all the scavenger birds--eagles, vultures crows, etc, will feast on those remaining, as Satan will not bother to bury anyone! Truth is not always nice, now is it? Yet it is the SOLE RESULT of one's individual choices we each have made! None will face this IF THEY want Jesus! -----
John 14:6 "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
NOTE(JB) To all my catholic Brethren, do you see the word Mary in the above verse? THINK for yourself!
2. What does the Roman Catholic church say concerning the contents of her Bible?
"If anyone does not receive the entire books with all their part as they are accustomed to be read in the Catholic church, and in the Old Latin Vulgate Edition, as sacred and canonical.....let them be anathema." Decree of the Council of Trent, 1546.
NOTE (JB) oopps! Pope John Paul II issued a statement saying that Genesis 1, should not be taken literally, because it is an allegory, was he not fallible or? "Oh what a web we weave, we we begin to deceive, right?"
3. Can we ascertain what the books there were in the Old Testament as used in the days of Jesus Christ?
Note: ----"The Septuagint was the Old Testament of the times of Christ and apostles. From its pages (JB scrolls), in its language, the New Testament writers usually quoted. The early Christian Church all about the shores of the Mediterranean Sea adopted generally that version of the Old testament. It was by the use of it that they proved that Jesus was the Promised Messiah, that all the law and the prophets were fulfilled in Him" Ira M. Price, "The Ancestry of Our English Bible," P.62
"The Septuagint, as it has come down to us, not simply a translation of our Hebrew Bible, but also of the many of the so-called apocryphal books " IBID ., P. 54.
4. From what Old Testament books did Christ and the Apostles quote?
While Christ and the Apostles quoted from practically every book in the Protestant Canon, they NEVER quoted and of the apocryphal books as Scripture, nor even recognized their existence!
NOTE (JB) This was man's own doing, that they are included as Scripture in all Catholic Bibles thus they are of human tradition ONLY! Does the Word of God address this issue?
Matthew 15:3 " But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?"
NOTE (JB): Who is this "HE", that speaking here? None other than Jesus Christ Himself!
Colossians 2:8 " Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ."
Colossians 2:20 "Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,"
To be "dead" in Christ, means to be alive, yet spiritually dead, because one rejects the whole or in part all that Christ!
2 Peter 3:10-11 "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,"
NOTE (JB): What ANYONE, or the vast majority believes, will not change what God has caused to be written! I mean, why anyone would think, that after more than 90% of ALL Prophecy has come to pass, as written, and on time, would ANYONE think or believe that last prophecy of Revelation and Daniel will just go away? God's GLORY is His WORD, His Character is the Ten Commandments!
5. Did the early church accept the apocryphal writings?
Note: Thomas Hartwell Horne, "An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures," Vol 1.P. 480.
"The Apocryphal books were not admitted into canon of divinely inspired Scriptures in any catalog of Sacred Books, or recognized by any council of the Ancient Christians church, nor in anything published by the Fathers or ecclesiastical writers of the first four centuries."
6. Have any Roman Catholics, ever questioned the inclusion, of the Apocrypha in their Bible?
YES! The great Roman Catholic scholar Jerome, when instructed by the Pope Damascus about A.D. 400 to prepare the Standard Latin Vulgate Version, wanted to exclude the Apocrypha because he believed that it had no place in Scripture. He was prevented from doing so, however, and under pressure he allowed it to remain to be "READ FOR PURPOSE OF EDIFICATION."
7. What other Catholic authorities have made pronouncements against the authority of the apocryphal writings?
Augustine followed Jerome in recognizing the difference between the canonical and the apocryphal books. The Spanish and trans-alpine churches rejected the Apocrypha. The British Catholic scholars Bede, John of Salisbury (1180) , and William Ockham (1347) all separated the apocryphal book. Cardinal Ximenes, in his magnificent Polyglot Bible, separated the Apocrypha from the rest of scripture in the 16th Century {1700's}
Even after the council of Florence in 1442 and the Council of Trent in 1546 had had pronounced the apocryphal books equal in inspiration to the other books, Sixtus of Siena (1566) insisted on separating the Apocrypha from the rest of the canon, and Bernard Lamy declared: "Nevertheless they are not of the same authority."
8. Why then does Rome insist on retaining the Apocrypha?
Because the apocryphal books can be quoted in support of some of the doctrines which the church holds!
A. Prayers for the dead are advocated-- "If he had not hoped that they that were slain would rise again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead." 2 Maccabees 12:44.
B. The dead are represented as praying for themselves.
Baruch 3:4 "O Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, hear now the prayers of the dead of Israel, and of their children, that have sinned before Thee."
Ecclesiastes 9:5 "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten."
Ecclesiastes 12:7 "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.:"
NOTE(JB): Who will you believe The Word of God or men? Spirit = Breath of Life = Genesis2:7 please read it! As death is the opposite of Creation!
C. The meritorious value of alms-giving is emphasized.
"For alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting.". Tobit 12:9.
Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
NOTE(JB): Christ died for all sins for all time on the behalf of all humanity! Money , nor works, gains us no passage to heaven, as neither is a pathway to heaven as I Jesus Christ Who IS The Way!
D. The doctrine of Purgatory is suggested.
"The souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them." Wisdom 3:11
9. To what conclusion must we therefore come with respect to the Apocrypha?
That it has no place in the canon of divine revelation.
NEXT: CAN WE BELIEVE THE BIBLE?
Thanking YOU, for your time. Questions? Comments? John at servant@frontier.com
Want more? Visit your seventh-day Adventist Church, any Saturday/Sabbath, 9010 AM. You just might be glad you did.
Other sites: aftv.org: blbn.org: amasingdiscoveries.org itiswritten.com servantsite@wordpresscom
jb
Matthew 24:27-28 "For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together."
NOTE(JB) At His return John 14:1-3 will become history! All the other living shall perish, and the unbelievers still in graves, will remain for the 1,000 years. Thus only Satan and the fallen angels shall remain living, plus all the scavenger birds--eagles, vultures crows, etc, will feast on those remaining, as Satan will not bother to bury anyone! Truth is not always nice, now is it? Yet it is the SOLE RESULT of one's individual choices we each have made! None will face this IF THEY want Jesus! -----
John 14:6 "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
NOTE(JB) To all my catholic Brethren, do you see the word Mary in the above verse? THINK for yourself!
2. What does the Roman Catholic church say concerning the contents of her Bible?
"If anyone does not receive the entire books with all their part as they are accustomed to be read in the Catholic church, and in the Old Latin Vulgate Edition, as sacred and canonical.....let them be anathema." Decree of the Council of Trent, 1546.
NOTE (JB) oopps! Pope John Paul II issued a statement saying that Genesis 1, should not be taken literally, because it is an allegory, was he not fallible or? "Oh what a web we weave, we we begin to deceive, right?"
3. Can we ascertain what the books there were in the Old Testament as used in the days of Jesus Christ?
Note: ----"The Septuagint was the Old Testament of the times of Christ and apostles. From its pages (JB scrolls), in its language, the New Testament writers usually quoted. The early Christian Church all about the shores of the Mediterranean Sea adopted generally that version of the Old testament. It was by the use of it that they proved that Jesus was the Promised Messiah, that all the law and the prophets were fulfilled in Him" Ira M. Price, "The Ancestry of Our English Bible," P.62
"The Septuagint, as it has come down to us, not simply a translation of our Hebrew Bible, but also of the many of the so-called apocryphal books " IBID ., P. 54.
4. From what Old Testament books did Christ and the Apostles quote?
While Christ and the Apostles quoted from practically every book in the Protestant Canon, they NEVER quoted and of the apocryphal books as Scripture, nor even recognized their existence!
NOTE (JB) This was man's own doing, that they are included as Scripture in all Catholic Bibles thus they are of human tradition ONLY! Does the Word of God address this issue?
Matthew 15:3 " But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?"
NOTE (JB): Who is this "HE", that speaking here? None other than Jesus Christ Himself!
Colossians 2:8 " Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ."
Colossians 2:20 "Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,"
To be "dead" in Christ, means to be alive, yet spiritually dead, because one rejects the whole or in part all that Christ!
2 Peter 3:10-11 "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,"
NOTE (JB): What ANYONE, or the vast majority believes, will not change what God has caused to be written! I mean, why anyone would think, that after more than 90% of ALL Prophecy has come to pass, as written, and on time, would ANYONE think or believe that last prophecy of Revelation and Daniel will just go away? God's GLORY is His WORD, His Character is the Ten Commandments!
5. Did the early church accept the apocryphal writings?
Note: Thomas Hartwell Horne, "An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures," Vol 1.P. 480.
"The Apocryphal books were not admitted into canon of divinely inspired Scriptures in any catalog of Sacred Books, or recognized by any council of the Ancient Christians church, nor in anything published by the Fathers or ecclesiastical writers of the first four centuries."
6. Have any Roman Catholics, ever questioned the inclusion, of the Apocrypha in their Bible?
YES! The great Roman Catholic scholar Jerome, when instructed by the Pope Damascus about A.D. 400 to prepare the Standard Latin Vulgate Version, wanted to exclude the Apocrypha because he believed that it had no place in Scripture. He was prevented from doing so, however, and under pressure he allowed it to remain to be "READ FOR PURPOSE OF EDIFICATION."
7. What other Catholic authorities have made pronouncements against the authority of the apocryphal writings?
Augustine followed Jerome in recognizing the difference between the canonical and the apocryphal books. The Spanish and trans-alpine churches rejected the Apocrypha. The British Catholic scholars Bede, John of Salisbury (1180) , and William Ockham (1347) all separated the apocryphal book. Cardinal Ximenes, in his magnificent Polyglot Bible, separated the Apocrypha from the rest of scripture in the 16th Century {1700's}
Even after the council of Florence in 1442 and the Council of Trent in 1546 had had pronounced the apocryphal books equal in inspiration to the other books, Sixtus of Siena (1566) insisted on separating the Apocrypha from the rest of the canon, and Bernard Lamy declared: "Nevertheless they are not of the same authority."
8. Why then does Rome insist on retaining the Apocrypha?
Because the apocryphal books can be quoted in support of some of the doctrines which the church holds!
A. Prayers for the dead are advocated-- "If he had not hoped that they that were slain would rise again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead." 2 Maccabees 12:44.
B. The dead are represented as praying for themselves.
Baruch 3:4 "O Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, hear now the prayers of the dead of Israel, and of their children, that have sinned before Thee."
Ecclesiastes 9:5 "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten."
Ecclesiastes 12:7 "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.:"
NOTE(JB): Who will you believe The Word of God or men? Spirit = Breath of Life = Genesis2:7 please read it! As death is the opposite of Creation!
C. The meritorious value of alms-giving is emphasized.
"For alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting.". Tobit 12:9.
Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
NOTE(JB): Christ died for all sins for all time on the behalf of all humanity! Money , nor works, gains us no passage to heaven, as neither is a pathway to heaven as I Jesus Christ Who IS The Way!
D. The doctrine of Purgatory is suggested.
"The souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them." Wisdom 3:11
9. To what conclusion must we therefore come with respect to the Apocrypha?
That it has no place in the canon of divine revelation.
NEXT: CAN WE BELIEVE THE BIBLE?
Thanking YOU, for your time. Questions? Comments? John at servant@frontier.com
Want more? Visit your seventh-day Adventist Church, any Saturday/Sabbath, 9010 AM. You just might be glad you did.
Other sites: aftv.org: blbn.org: amasingdiscoveries.org itiswritten.com servantsite@wordpresscom
jb
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