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Originally Posted by Esaias
Funny. I have my grandparents' Family Bible, a Douay (Challonier-Rheims) version, complete with the Imprimatur etc. It includes a little section in the front about 'reading the Bible'. It contains an admonishment that 'Catholics are forbidden to read Protestant versions of the Bible, including the King James version'.
Your statement, which I quoted above, is proof positive you have practically zero idea what you are talking about, and your opinions on the Word of God are equivalent to the postulations of a Sesame Street muppet on any department of theological inquiry.
Sorry to be so blunt, but the arrogance displayed by the Bible-haters and Bible-correctors is over the top. I mean really, investigation and 'searching for truth' requires a wee bit more effort than plugging in 'bible lies' into Google and running with the first Geocities website you get.  |
Well, you said…absolutely nothing that refers to my statement that the Catholic Church was the State Religion of England…which proves you have zero idea what you're talking about, because it (The Catholic Church) was.
"Many of the key tenets of the Reformation were not new: they had been anticipated in England by the teachings of the theologian and reformer John Wycliffe in the fourteenth century. But Wycliffe and his followers, known as Lollards, had been suppressed, and, officially at least, England in the early sixteenth century had a single religion, Catholicism, whose acknowledged head was the Pope in Rome."
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/engl..._3/welcome.htm
"While embracing some themes of the Protestant Reformation, the Church of England also maintains Catholic traditions of the ancient church and teachings of the Church Fathers, unless these are considered contrary to scripture."
"The high church party places importance on the Church of England's continuity with the pre-Reformation Catholic Church, adherence to ancient liturgical usages and the sacerdotal nature of the priesthood."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_England
"In the early sixteenth century, England's single official religion was Catholicism, and the head of the Church was the pope in Rome. Catholic liturgy and the Bible were in Latin, which few lay people understood."
http://wwnorton.com/college/english/.../overview.aspx
Esaias, do some research before you go spouting off lies and bogus information.
Even during and after the Reformation, England still adhered to the Traditions and Teachings of Catholicism, because of one simple fact; Modern Christianity came from Rome, and whether we like it or not, the American (Christian) Church is modeled after the Catholic Church. Just like tomorrow, most Christians will celebrate Easter, a Roman Catholic Holiday/Tradition.
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