toobfreak wrote: Do you really suppose that the Bible played no influence on the Founder's writing of the US Constitution?
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NFBW wrote: Founder and 2nd President John Adamās was anti-Catholic like nearly every colonist was at the time. Jefferson cut up his Bible and made a Jefferson Bible out of it by eliminating the hocus pocus junk in it.. 21SEP05-POST#74
āāā "Is there any instance of a Roman Catholic monarchy of five and 20 million at once converted into a free and rational people?" he {John Adamās} once asked Dr. Joseph Priestley, a philosopher and Francophile.
"No, I know of no instance like it." Writing to Jefferson in 1816 about a recent revival of the Catholic order of the Jesuits, Adams wrote, "This Society has been a greater Calamity to Mankind than the French Revolution or Napoleans Despotism or Ideology. It has obstructed the Progress of Reformation and the Improvements of the human Mind in Society much longer and more fatally."
It's hard to recognize freedom's champion in this letter to his wife Abigail in which he describes a visit to St. Mary's Catholic Church in Philadelphia. His pen dripping with contempt and pity, Adams catalogues the repellant customs: "The poor wretches fingering their beads, chanting Latin, not a word of which they understood, Their holy Water--their Crossing themselves perpetually--their Bowing to the Name of Jesus, whererever they hear it --their Bowings, and Kneelings, and Genuflections before the Altar." JA-antiCatholic-01 āāā 21SEP05-POST#74
NFBW wrote: Can you
toobfreak substantiate the claim that the HOLY Bible
had much if any influence on the founders clearing and writing the US Constitution? 21SEP05-POST#74
āāā The Church received its sacred writings from the apostles, and the Catholic Church manifests the true canon of Scripture by its continuous use of certain books as sacred Scripture in its liturgies.
Few Protestants raise an eyebrow over the fact that there is a 2,000-year lacuna between the Scriptureās inspiration and their personal copy of sacred Scripture. For them, what transpired in those intervening years really isnāt
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Without the Catholic Church, the canon cannot be made manifest, and if the canon is not made manifest then it is up to each individual Christian to determine which books should or should not be included in Scripture.
The Bible, therefore, is really a Catholic book in that it came from the very heart of the Catholic Church. Its authenticity, veracity, canon and proper interpretation all depend upon the witness of the Church. When the Bible is taken out of its Catholic context, the very foundation upon which we can know that the Scripture is inspired, true, authentic, complete and properly understood is undermined. Without the Church, the Scripture is no more defensible than if it had one day fallen out of the sky. Bible&Catholic-01 āāā 21SEP05-POST#74