Ummmm,
YOU accuse
@Marymog of being
"dishonest" - yet
YOU just regurgitated some of the
biggest lies in ALL of Christendom.
Let's start with your
whopper about the Church
"withholding" the Scriptures from the people - an
historically-bankrupt statement if there
ever was one.
First of all - the Scriptures have been
READ to the people since the
beginning. This is
completely in line with
Rom. 10:7, which states
explicitly:
"So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ."
Not only does the
Liturgy of the Word encompass the entire
FIRST HALF of the
Mass - the Mass
itself is entirely based on
Scripture
(Acts 2:46-47, 1 Cor. 10:16, Matt. 26:26-29, Mark 14:22-25, Luke 22:19-20, John 6:29-71, 1 Cor. 11:27-30, Rev. 1:10, Rev. 1:12, 2:5, Rev. 1:13, 4:4, 6:11, 7:9, 15:6, 19:13-14, Rev. 2:5, 16, 21; 3:3; 16:11, Rev. 15:3-4, Rev. 4:4, 5:14; 11:16, 14:3, 19:4, Rev. 5:8, 6:9-11, 8:3-4, Rev. 4:8, Rev. 2:17, Rev. 5:8, 8:3-4, Rev. 6:9, Rev. 5, Rev. 8:3, 11:1, 14:18, 16:7, Rev. 14:4, Rev. 15:7, 16:1-4, 8, 10, 12, 17; 21:9, Rev. 17, 19:9, Rev. 19:1, 3, 4, 6, Rev. 5:14; 7:12; 19:4).
Secondly - your
woeful-ignorance of history shows that you are completely
unaware that up until the
19th century - as much as
85-90% of the general population was
FUNCTIONALLY ILLITERATE. So, not only was there
NO need to
"keep Bibles away" from the general public - they had
NO USE for them because they
couldn't read.
This, coupled with the fact that a
handwritten Bible took
YEARS to transcribe so they were
very expensive and
difficult to come by in the first place. They were
chained to pulpits to protect them from being
stolen.
It was the
RICH who were interested in having their
own copies made - and
THIS is where the problem began because the
spurious and
heretical versions that were being transcribed due to
poor translation.
THIS is why the Church forbade owning and copying
UNAUTHORIZED Bibles.
As to your
asinine claim that
NO Church dogma is based on
Scripture - I hereby
challenge you right now to
NAME ONE.
Show me the teaching fro the
Catechism - and
show me that there is
"NO" Scriptural basis.
Finally - your
lie regarding the idea that Catholics are
NOT allowed to interpret the
meaning of Scripture for
themselves -
SHOW me that teaching as well - from the
Catechism.
I
eagerly await your
educated response . . .
