CLAIM: The Catholic Church gave us the Holy Bible. You should be grateful!
TRUTH: No, the Catholic Church did not give us the Holy Bible. If anything, they kept it from the world. It was the Jews and the Protestants who gave us the Holy Bibleāand many of them voluntarily paid for it with their own blood.
First and foremost, God Almighty entrusted His Word to the Jews.
Godās people received it, recorded it, and faithfully copied it down on scrolls generation after generation. Many Jews willingly gave their lives and subjected themselves to horrific tortures and brutal death at the hands of both Greeks and Romansāall to ensure that the Word of God survived.
It was the Jews who canonized all 39 books of the Hebrew Scriptures (Genesis to Malachi), and they did it about 500 years before the Catholic Church even existed.
The Catholic Church had ZERO influence determining which books of the āOld Testamentā were Scripture. I repeat: ZERO.
That was 100% the Jews.
The only thing the Catholic Church determined was what books should be included in the New Testamentāthe same New Testament books that were also written by THE JEWS.
So, no, the Catholic Church actually did extraordinarily little when it came to providing the world with the Holy Bible.
In fact, the Catholic Church FORBADE the common man from even reading the Bibleādesiring to keep the people chained to the pulpit and enslaved to the false teachings and traditions of Catholicism.
1000+ years after the Catholic Church was established, we had the Protestant Reformation that started in 1517 with Martin Lutherās 95 Theses against the Catholic Church.
Unlike the Catholic Church that kept the Word of God from the people, the Great Protestant Reformers worked tirelessly to translate the Bible into English so the common man could read it and study it for themselvesāso that THE TRUTH of Godās Word could set them FREE from the authoritarian rule of the Catholic Church.
And like the Jews before them, many of the Reformers willingly gave their lives so that YOU could have the Holy Bible. The Catholic Church literally hunted these courageous men down, imprisoned them, tortured them, and murdered them.
The only reason we have the Bible today is because (1) the Jews wrote it and passed it down, and (2) the Protestant Reformers gave their lives to translate it and print it into English.
So, no. Iām not grateful to the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is an enemy to God and an enemy to the truth of His Word that sets souls free.
Stress this point: I am NOT necessarily talking about Catholicsāthe people. God knows and I know that there are plenty of Catholics who are genuinely wonderful people, and I thank God for them.
Iām talking about the Catholic Church itselfāthe institution and the religion. Iām talking about that theological abomination that has the blood of untold numbers of faithful servants of God on their hands.
Thank God for the Jews and the Protestants! Without them, weād still be chained to the pulpit of the Catholic Church and left in spiritual darkness.