IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AFRAID OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE?

Title page from the 1582 Douai-Rheims New Testament, "specially for the discouerie of the CORRVPTIONS of diuers late translations, and for cleering the CONTROVERSIES in religion." Look closely at the Title Page Cover of the Protestant KING JAMES VERSION below. It is full of IMAGES OF SAINTS, OF HOLY SPIRIT AND OF GOD DEPICTED AS LIGHT. So much for their claim that it is evil to create images.

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Anonymous said...

sana post mo to mr. abe...

Having God's Word available to the public in the language of the common man, English, would have meant disaster to the church. No longer would they control access to the scriptures. If people were able to read the Bible in their own tongue, the church's income and power would crumble. They could not possibly continue to get away with selling indulgences (the forgiveness of sins) or selling the release of loved ones from a church-manufactured "Purgatory". People would begin to challenge the church's authority if the church were exposed as frauds and thieves. The contradictions between what God's Word said, and what the priests taught, would open the public's eyes and the truth would set them free from the grip of fear that the institutional church held. Salvation through faith, not works or donations, would be understood. The need for priests would vanish through the priesthood of all believers. The veneration of church-canonized Saints and Mary would be called into question. The availability of the scriptures in English was the biggest threat imaginable to the wicked church. Neither side would give up without a fight.

June 24, 2010 4:42 PM

The title page to the 1611 first edition of the Authorized Version Bible by Cornelius Boel shows the Apostles Peter and Paul seated centrally above the central text, which is flanked by Moses and Aaron. In the four corners sit Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, authors of the four gospels, with their symbolic animals. The rest of the Apostles stand around Peter and Paul. At the very top is the Tetragrammaton "יהוה".

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Fr. Abe, CRS said...

[sana post mo to mr. abe...]

HERE IT IS AND AS YOU WISHED; IT IS NOW POSTED. HOPE YOU ARE VERY HAPPY WITH IT.

[Having God's Word available to the public in the language of the common man, English, would have meant disaster to the church.]

I THINK YOUR MIND IS OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY. THE BIBLE IS ALREADY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY BOTH CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS SCHOLARS YET THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS FAST GROWING IN ENGLAND AND IN THE UNITED STATES.

BESIDES, THE MOST POPULAR VERSION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT OF THE HOLY BIBLE IN ENGLISH FROM THE CATHOLIC CHURCH CAME OUT IN 1582 - THE DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSION. THEN THE COMPLETE SET OF THE HOLY BIBLE WITH NEW AND OLD TESTAMENTS FINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1610.

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH RELEASED THIS ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE TO UPHELD THE CATHOLIC FAITH AGAINST THE PROTESTANTS. IT SHOWS THAT WE ARE NOT AFRAID TO CONFRONT THE PROTESTANTS WITH THE VERNACULAR VERSIONS OF THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD RIGHT DURING THE REFORMATION ERA.

ON THE CONTRARY, THE PROTESTANTS' MOST POPULAR ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE KING JAMES VERSION - STARTED THEIR WORK ONLY IN 1604 AND PUBLISHED THE FINISHED PRODUCT ONE YEAR LATE TO THAT OF THE CATHOLICS... ONLY IN 1611.

THE BLACK LEGEND THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS AFRAID OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE DOES NOT HOLD WATER. IT IS A MYTH BORNE OUT OF THE MALICIOUS, FICTITIOUS AND TREACHEROUS MINDS OF THE ANTI-CATHOLICS.

[No longer would they control access to the scriptures.]

THE CATHOLICS ARE NEVER PROHIBITED TO READ AND STUDY THE SCRIPTURES. THEY WERE PROHIBITED TO STUDY THE HERETICAL VERSIONS OF THE SCRIPTURES. EVEN BEFORE THE PROTESTANTS CAME INTO EXISTENCE BY THE EVIL DESIGN OF LUTHER AND CALVIN THE BIBLE HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED ALREADY INTO MANY VERNACULARS OF EUROPE. ON THE ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE THE WIKIPEDIA HAS THIS TO SAY:

"Although John Wycliff is often credited with the first translation of the Bible into English, there were, in fact, many translations of large parts of the Bible centuries before Wycliff's work. Toward the end of the seventh century, the Venerable Bede began a translation of Scripture into Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon). Aldhelm (AD 640–709), likewise, translated the complete Book of Psalms and large portions of other scriptures into Old English. In the 11th century, Abbot Ælfric translated much of the Old Testament into Old English."

[If people were able to read the Bible in their own tongue, the church's income and power would crumble.]

HA, HA, HA... HOW COME THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS STEADILY GROWING IN THE ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES SUCH AS ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES? THE NUMBER OF ANGLICANS AND EPISCOPALIANS CONVERTING TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS STAGGERING AND NOW IN ENGLAND THERE ARE MORE CATHOLICS ATTENDING WORSHIPS THAN ANGLICANS AS POLLED BY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA. IN THE UNITED STATES THE CATHOLICS WERE PREVIOUSLY A TINY MINORITY BUT NOW ABOUT 300,000 PEOPLE ARE RECEIVING ADULT BAPTISM DURING EASTER VIGIL ALONE. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS THE FASTEST GROWING GROUP IN THE UK AND IS NOW THE BIGGEST SINGLE GROUP OF RELIGIONS IN THE UNITED STATES. THE MARGIN BETWEEN RCC AND THE PROTESTANTS IN THE UNITED STATES IS QUITE LITTLE ALREADY. BUT IF THE COMPARISON IS SINGLEHANDED THE RCC WILL RISE TO THE TOP.

THERE ARE MORE PROTESTANTS THEOLOGIANS, PHILOSOPHERS, AUTHORS, AND PROMINENT MEMBERS WHO ARE CONVERTING TO RCC THAN VICE VERSA. AND THEY ARE DOING SO READING AND USING THE ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE. MANY OF THESE CONVERTS ARE NOW THE ACTIVE APOLOGISTS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. JUST GOOGLE CATHOLIC APOLOGETICS IN THE NET AND MOST OF THE PERSONAGES THAT WILL APPEAR ARE EITHER AMERICAN OR BRITISH CONVERT TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

[They could not possibly continue to get away with selling indulgences (the forgiveness of sins)]

THE INDULGENCES ARE NOT FOR SALE BECAUSE EVERY CATHOLIC CAN ACQUIRE THEM BY LIVING THEIR BIBLICAL FAITH:

* Adoration and Prayer to God

* Feeding the Hungry

* Giving drink to the thirsty

* Giving clothe to the naked

* Taking good care of the Sick

* Visiting the Prisoners

* Comforting the Sorrowful

THESE GOOD THINGS WERE NEVER FOR SALE IN THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH.

IF YOU ARE TALKING OF ABUSES IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, YES THERE WERE ABUSES. BUT DON'T BE A HYPOCRITE BECAUSE THERE ARE ALSO ABUSES IN THE PROTESTANT GROUPS, IN THE EVANGELICAL GROUPS AND WITH THOSE WHO CALL THEMSELVES BORN AGAIN... AND THOSE WHO CALLED THEMSELVES BAPTISTS.

MUCH MORE, THESE ANTI-CATHOLIC GROUPS ARE THE ONES DRAINING THE BLOOD OF THEIR FAITHFUL LIKE COUNT DRACULA THROUGH OBLIGATORY TITHINGS, DECEIVING THEM WITH SO CALLED GOSPEL OF PROSPERITY. HA, HA, HA... ISN'T THAT DEMONIC? THAT IS ACTUALLY SATANIC - PROMISING PEOPLE THAT THEY WILL BECOME RICH BY OBLIGING THEM TO GIVE 10% OF THEIR SALARY AND INCOME.

SOME CATHOLIC PREACHERS ONLY REQUESTED PEOPLE TO GIVE MORE TO CHURCH CHARITIES AND CONSTRUCTION PLANS BUT THEY DID NOT OBLIGE AND WE DIDN'T INVENT A 'GOSPEL OF PROSPERITY' WHICH IS A MERE INVENTION BY THE SO-CALLED EVANGELICALS. THE CATHEDRALS, THE BASILICAS AND THE MONASTERIES WHICH WERE PRODUCED BY THE DONATIONS OF THE RICH AND THE COMMON PEOPLE DURING THE MEDIEVAL ERA WERE NOT INHERITED BY THE FAMILIES OF THOSE PRIESTS AND MONKS WHO WERE CELIBATE. UNTIL NOW THEY ARE STILL OWNED BY THE CATHOLIC FAITHFUL AND ARE BEING PASSED FRON ONE AGE TO ANOTHER THROUGH CANONICAL SUCCESSIONS. BUT THE BANK ACCOUNTS AND THE MANSIONS OF THE SWAGGARTS AND THE BAKKERS AND THE ROBINSONS, ETC. WERE THEIRS AND THEIRS ALONE. THE OWNERSHIP IS BEING PASSED TO THEIR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN IN A MOST SATANIC MANIFESTATION OF NEPOTISM. ON THE CONTRARY WHEN POPE JOHN PAUL THE GREAT DIED, NO RELATIVES COULD EVEN CLAIM A SINGLE CHAIR IN THE VATICAN CITY. AND WHEN BENEDICT XVI SHALL PASS AWAY HE WILL LEAVE EVERYTHING TO THE NEW LEADER OF THE CHURCH WHO HAS NO BLOOD-RELATION WITH HIM.

IN ADDITION, THE FACT THAT YOU ARE QUESTIONING THE POWER OF THE CHURCH TO FORGIVE SINS SHOW THAT YOUR FAITH IS NOT GENUINELY CHRISTIAN. IT IS FAKE. BECAUSE THE TRUE CHRISTIAN CHURCH HAS THE POWER TO FORGIVE SINS THROUGH ITS MINISTERS:

John 20:21-23 (New International Version)

21Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you." 22And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit. 23If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven."

THE FACT THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS THE DOCTRINE OF FORGIVENESS OF SINS ONLY PROVES THAT WE ARE THE TRUE CHURCH ENTRUSTED BY CHRIST TO HIS APOSTLES.

[or selling the release of loved ones from a church-manufactured "Purgatory".]

THE CATHOLIC DOCTRINE OF PURGATORY IS BELIEVED BY CATHOLIC CHRISTIANS CENTURIES PRIOR TO THE EXISTENCE OF YOUR SELF-MANUFACTURED, SELF-INVENTED RELIGIONS, FELLOWSHIPS AND GROUPS. OUR DOCTRINES ARE INHERITED BUT NOT INVENTED. YOURS YOU DID NOT JUST INVENT DOCTRINES BUT ALSO RELIGION AND FELLEWSHIPS. EVERYTHING IN YOUR GROUP IS INVENTED.

THE DOCTRINE OF PURGATORY OR OF CLEANSING OF SINS IS A BIBLICAL DOCTRINE.

THE RELEASE OF A LOVED ONES FROM PURGATORY IS NEVER FOR SALE BECAUSE THE CATHOLICS ARE PRAYING FOR THEIR ENTRANCE INTO HEAVEN DAILY EITHER THROUGH PERSONAL PRAYERS OR IN THE DAILY CELEBRATIONS OF THE HOLY EUCHARIST. BOTH ARE FREE FOR OUR BAPTIZED MEMBERS. HOW CAN OUR FEW PRIESTS CONTROL THE PERSONAL PRAYERS OF MILLIONS OF CATHOLICS IN THEIR WORKING PLACES OR IN THEIR HOMES. AND IN THE HOLY MASS IT IS THE OBLIGATION OF THE PRIESTS TO PRAY FOR THE SOULS UNDER THE PROCESS OF PURIFICATION FROM SINS, EVERY DAY WITH OR WITHOUT A DONOR. PRIESTS ARE OBLIGE TO CELEBRATE THE MASS WITH OR WITHOUT A FAITHFUL ATTENDING, AND WITH OR WITHOUT DONATION.

THE BORN AGAIN AND THE EVANGELICALS ARE HAVING OFFICIAL LEDGERS OF THOSE WHO ARE GIVING TITHES AND THOSE WHO DO NOT. ISN'T THAT HYPOCRISY?

ALSO, IN THEIR RADIO AND TV PROGRAMS THEY ARE SHAMEFULLY ADVERTISING: "SEND YOUR PRAYERS AND DONATIONS TO JESUS IS LORD FELLOWSHIP".... HA, HA, HA... THERE WERE SCANDALS IN THE UNITED STATES ACTUALLY WHEN IT IS REVEALED THAT SOME EVANGELISTS WERE SIMPLY GETTING THE MONEY AND WERE THROWING AWAY THE PRAYERS AND PETITIONS WITHOUT READING THEM. HA, HA, HA...

IMAGINE, IN ORDER TO DECEIVE PEOPLE ON 'DONATIONS' THEY MIXED IT WITH THE WORD 'PRAYERS'. OTHERS ARE MUCH MORE SPECIFIC AND CATEGORICAL. THERE ARE BANK ACCOUNTS... BANK NAMES AND SAVING ACCOUNT NUMBERS BEING SHOWN ON TV OR MENTIONED ON RADIO SO THAT THE DONATIONS WILL FLOW RIGHT INTO THEIR TREASURY BOX. DEMONS ARE BECOMING CLEVERER AND MORE CUNNING THESE DAYS. ISN'T IT? HE, HE, HE...

[People would begin to challenge the church's authority if the church were exposed as frauds and thieves.]

WE ARE READY TO FACE ANY ACCUSATIONS AGAINST US. AND WE ARE READY TO PRESENT OUR CATHOLIC WORKS AND ACTIVITIES FOR THE JUDGMENT OF THE PEOPLE. THE CATHOLICS ARE FAMOUS ALL OVER THE WORLD FOR OUR WORKS OF CHARITIES, FOR PIONEERING CHARITABLE WORKS IN HOSPITALS, ORPHANAGES, LEPROSARIUSM AND HOME FOR THE AGED. WE ARE ALSO PIONEERS IN EDUCATION, IN FACT MANY OF THE OLDEST UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD WERE FOUNDED UNDER THE AUTHORITY AND APPROVAL OF OUR POPES. AND STILL MANY UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE ADMINISTERED BY CATHOLICS. IF OUR MEMBERS COMMITTED MISTAKES THEN LET THEM FACE THE COURT OF MEN BUT IT IS ALSO TRUE THAT WE ARE RECEIVING A LOT OF PRAISES AND MESSAGES OF GRATITUDE ALL OVER THE WORLD BECAUSE OF SO MANY GOOD THINGS THAT WE ARE CONTRIBUTING TO VARIOUS PEOPLES.

FOR THAT REASON, MANY OF OUR MEMBERS ARE RECEIVING NOBEL PRIZES AND MANY OTHER RECOGNITIONS OF THE WORLD AND IN MANY LANDS WE ARE BEING ADMIRED AND RESPECTED BY PEOPLE. WHEN IT COMES TO CHARITABLE WORKS WE CAN EVEN HELD OUR HEAD HIGH WITH THE UNITED NATIONS. THESE WE ARE DOING WITHOUT DEMANDING TITHES FROM OUR MEMBERS.

[The contradictions between what God's Word said, and what the priests taught, would open the public's eyes and the truth would set them free from the grip of fear that the institutional church held.]

ON THE CONTRARY, WHEN THE PROTESTANTS LEARN CHURCH HISTORY AND TRULY READ THE BIBLE WITH OPEN MIND THEY WILL SURELY CONVERT TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

THE REASON WHY THERE IS NOW A RISE OF CATHOLIC APOLOGETICS. THE CONVERTS FROM PROTESTANTS, EVANGELICALS AND BORN AGAIN ARE THE ONES DEFENDING THE CATHOLIC FAITH IN PUBLIC FORA INCLUDING DEBATES. MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE BECOMING AWARE HOW POWERFUL THE BIBLICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH.

YOU PRESENT AN INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH AS IF IT IS NEGATIVE AS IF YOUR EVANGELICAL GROUPS AND FELLOWSHIPS ARE NOT INSTITUTIONAL AS RECORDED IN THE RECORDS OF GOVERNMENT OFFICE SUCH AS THE SECURITY AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION. YOUR BORN AGAIN FELLOWSHIPS AND YOUR BAPTIST GROUPS ARE LISTED AS "INCORPORATED". HA, HA, HA... SO YOUR CLAIM OF BEING NON INSTITUTIONAL IS DECEPTIVE, AN ACT OF TREACHERY AND A BLATANT LIE. IT IS HYPOCRISY AGAIN. BESIDES, BEING AN UNINSTITUTIONAL CHURCH IS MORE DANGEROUS. IT MEANS IT IS A MERE CULT WHOSE RULES AND DOCTRINES ARE AT THE WHIMS AND CAPRICE OF ITS PASTORS.

[Salvation through faith, not works or donations, would be understood.]

THE DOCTRINE OF SOLA FIDE OR FAITH ALONE IS A SATANIC, DEMONIC DOCTRINE INVENTED BY MARTIN LUTHER AND SWALLOWED BY YOU AND YOUR KIND. THE BIBLE NEVER TAUGHT THAT JUSTIFICATION OR SALVATION IS BY FAITH ALONE. NEVER.

IT WAS MARTIN LUTHER WHO INVENTED IT BY ADDING THE WORD "ALONE" IN THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS IN HIS GERMAN TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. THAT SATANIC ADDITION WAS LATER REMOVED BECAUSE IT WAS AN OBVIOUS VIOLATION, ABUSED AND MANIPULATION OF THE SACRED WORD OF GOD AS DECRIED BY HIS OWN PEERS. HOWEVER, EVEN THOUGH THE TEXT HAD BEEN CORRECTED THE SATANIC THEOLOGY OF SALVATION BY FAITH ALONE IS STILL UPHELD BY HIS HERETICAL FOLLOWERS SUCH AS YOU.

HE ALSO DEMONICALLY TAUGHT SOLA SCRIPTURA OR BIBLE ALONE WHICH IS ALSO AN INVENTION NOT FOUND IN THE BIBLE ITSELF.

[The need for priests would vanish through the priesthood of all believers.]

HA, HA, HA... CHRIST CHOSE AND ORDAINED TWELVE MEN AND ALSO CHOSE 70 OTHERS TO BE SPECIAL MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH. THERE ARE MINISTERS IN THE CHURCH TO WHOM THE POWER TO OFFER THE EUCHARISTIC SACRIFICE AND TO LEAD THE CHURCH WERE GIVEN. DEFINITELY, THE PRIESTLY MINISTRY WAS GIVEN TO THE ALL MALE APOSTOLIC LEADERS IN THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH. TO CLAIM THAT ALL WERE EQUAL IN MINISTRY THEN MANIFESTS BASIC IGNORANCE OF THE SACRED SCRIPTURES.

[The veneration of church-canonized Saints and Mary would be called into question.]

THE BIBLE HONORS MARY AND JOSEPH, AND PETER AND PAUL, AND JOHN AND ANDREW, OF JOHN THE BAPTIST AND HIS MOTHER ELIZABETH. THE BIBLE HONORS ABRAHAM, MOSES, DAVID, ELIJAH AND MANY OTHERS. THESE ARE THE CATHOLIC SAINTS. THE PROTESTANTS ON THE OTHER HAND, HONOR PASTOR BENNY HINN, JIMMY SWAGGART, JOEL OSTEEN, ETC. HA, HA, HA... HYPOCRITE... YOU DONT WANT TO HONOR MARY BUT YOU ARE HONORING NON BIBLICAL PERSONAGES WHOM YOU HAVE IDOLIZED. WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT HIMSELF HAD CHOSEN IS REJECTED IN FAVOR OF THOSE YOU HAVE PERSONALLY CHOSEN. I VOMIT YOUR HONORED PASTORS AND I HONOR MARY THE MOTHER OF JESUS - THE WOMAN HONORED BY THE LORD JESUS TO BE HIS MOTHER. YOUR HONORED PASTORS ARE GARBAGE INCOMPARISON TO MARY OF NAZARETH.

[The availability of the scriptures in English was the biggest threat imaginable to the wicked church. Neither side would give up without a fight.]

WE PRAISE THE LORD BECAUSE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS CONSISTENT IN PROCLAMING THE FAITH THROUGH THE ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE WORD OF GOD CENTURIES PRIOR THE PROTESTANTS AND UNTIL NOW. WE PRAISE THE LORD FOR THE CATHOLIC FAITH IS FLOURISHING AND IS GROWING IN THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD. ALLELUIA. AMEN.

THE GATE OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT. YOUR LIES SHALL BE UNMASKED AND TRUTH SHALL SET US FREE.

June 24, 2010 8:34 PM