The Bible was NOT given by the rcc

The  Bible was NOT given to us by the roman catholic church'  -

  We have heard all the claims roman catholics make about "giving the world the Bible". They use a very  typical ploy of catholic apologists. Many of us out strongly disagree about  the Bible being a "catholic book".

  Some of us know a bit about  the history of the scriptures, which were in circulation long before the roman catholic church canonized the New Testament.

  The Old Testament came  through the Jews (God's chosen people of old) who had the holy writings  entrusted to them. Paul asked, "What advantage then remains to the Jew,  or what is the use of circumcision?

   Much in every respect. First, indeed,  because the oracles of God were entrusted to them." (Rom. 3:1-2).

The  Old Testament books were gathered into one volume and were translated from  Hebrew
   into Greek long before Christ came to earth.
  *The Septuagint Version was translated by seventy scholars at
  Alexandria, Egypt around the year 227 B.C., and this was the version Christ  and His apostles used* .

  Christ did not tell the  people, as Catholics do today, that they could accept the Scriptures only on  the basis of the authority of those who gathered them and declared them to be  inspired. He urged the people
  of His day to follow the Old  Testament Scriptures as the infallible guide, not because man or any group of  men has sanctioned them as such, but because they came from God.

  The New Testament books  were in existence in their present form at the close of the apostolic age.

 *The apostles themselves put their writings into circulation* . "And
  when this letter has been read among you,
  see that it be read in the  church of the Laodiceans also; and that you yourselves read the letter from  Laodicea." (Col. 4:16).

 "I charge you by the Lord that this epistle  be read to all the holy brethren." (1 Thess. 5:27).

   The holy Scriptures were written for all (1  Cor. 1:2; Eph. 1:1) and all will be judged by them in the last day (Rev.  20:12; John 12:48). Jesus said that His Word will abide forever (Matt. 24:35;  1 Pet. 1:23-25).

   *The New Testament  books were gathered into one volume and were in circulation long before the  Catholic Church claims to have taken its action in 390 at the council of  Hippo* .

  The early church fathers have  handed down in their writings quotations from all the New Testament books so  much so that it is said that the entire New Testament can be reproduced from  their writings alone.

  Justin Martyr mentioned the  Gospels as being four in number and quoted from them and some of the epistles  of Paul and Revelation (100-147 A.D).

  Irenaeus, quoted from all New  Testament books except Philemon, Jude, James and 3 John (135-200AD).

 Turtullian, contemporary of Origen and Clement, mentioned all the New
  Testament books except2 Peter, James and 2 John  (160-240AD). All centuries before your catholic church was formed by the  committee of men under Constantine.

   Catholics love to reference the "early  church fathers". Do YOU really know what they were all about?

  Origen, born at Alexandria,  named all the books of both the Old and New Testaments (185-254AD) .

  Eusebius, bishop at Caesarea,  called the Father of ecclesiastical history, gave an account of the  persecution of Emperor Diocletian whose edict required that all churches be  destroyed and the Scriptures burned .

   He lists all the books of the New Testament.  He was commissioned by Constantine to have transcribed fifty copies of the  Bible for use of the churches of Constantinople (270AD).

  Cyril, bishop at Jerusalem,  gave a list of all New Testament books except Revelation (315-386AD) .

  Athanasius, bishop at  Alexandria, mentioned all of the New Testament books (326AD).

  The word "catholic"  does mean "universal", so we see that the apostles and early church  father's were catholic in that sense . They were members of the church  universal--the church of Christ
   which is described in the New Testament  Scriptures (Col. 1:18; Rom. 16:16).
But, the writers of the New Testament  were NOT members of the Roman Catholic Church as we know it today!

  The Roman Catholic Church  was not fully developed until several hundred years after the New Testament  was written. It is not the same institution as disclosed in the New  Testament .

  The New Testament books were  written by members of the Lord's church, but they are not its author. God  Himself is the author of the New Testament .

  Many out here are not the  typical non-catholic that only knows what pastors preach to the congregation  on Sunday.

  Please tell us what do all  those claims you make about the roman catholic church giving everything to the  world have to do with roman catholics knowingly and willingly going against the  teachings of the Bible?

   How could anyone claim to be following  something they try so hard to go against? If you gave us t