ThaBible

Tha Bible that Christians Worship today was compiled and “bless” by tha Catholic Church, not God. Any book that disagreed with tha Catholic Church was banned. What Christians call “Tha Holy Bible,” and what these preachers run around thumping, wasn’t even put together until almost 400 years after tha death of Jesus. So everything in it is hearsay. In terms of years, at tha time tha Bible was complied, they were twice as far away from tha lyfe and times of Jesus Christ as we are away from George Washington today. So in reality, they didn’t know fact from fiction, any more than we know whether or not George Washington really chopped down a cherry tree:“For tha first 300 years of Christianity, there was no Bible as we know it today. Christians had tha Old Testament Septuagint, and literally hundreds of other books from which to choose. Tha Catholic Church realized early on that it had to decide which of these books were inspired and which ones weren’t. Tha debates raged between theologians, Bishops, and Church Fathers for several centuries as to which books were inspired and which ones weren’t. In the meantime, several Church Councils or Synods, were convened to deal with tha matter, notably, Rome in 382, Hippo in 393, and Carthage in 397 and 419.


Tha debates sometimes became bitter on both sides. One of tha most famous was between St. Jerome, who felt tha seven books were not canonical, and St. Augustine who said they were. Protestants who write about this will invariably mention St. Jerome and his opposition, and conveniently omit tha support of St. Augustine. I must point out here that Church Father’s writings are not infallible statements, and their arguments are merely reflections of their own private opinions. When some say St. Jerome was against tha inclusion of the seven books, they are merely showing his personal opinion of them. Everyone is entitled to his own opinion. However, A PERSONS PRIVATE OPINION DOES NOT CHANGE THA TRUTH AT ALL. There are always three sides to every story, this side, that side, and the side of truth. Whether Jerome’s position, or Augustine’s position was tha correct position, had to be settled by a third party, and that third party was tha Catholic Church.

.“Now tha story had a dramatic change, as tha Pope stepped in to settle tha matter. In concurrence with tha opinion of St. Augustine, and being prompted by tha Holy Spirit, Pope St. Damasus I, at tha Council of Rome in 382, issued a decree appropriately called, “Tha Decree of Damasus”, in which he listed tha canonical books of both tha Old and New Testaments. He then asked St. Jerome to use this canon and to write a new Bible translation which included an Old Testament of 46 books, which were all in the Septuagint, and a New Testament of 27 book