#Also I currently live among the worst of y’all (Pentecostals and Baptists) so my patience short

[metalcatholic]

perhaps this is a dumb question, but why do catholics say things like that they wrote the bible? every christian shares a heritage, right? like, protestants can trace their history back through past the reformation too (besides the fact that the protestant bible is different, the canon that was established pre-reformation is a shared history) orthodox too, the schism happened after centuries of shared history and councils... i just dont see why only catholics try to claim the full history when it is every christian's, even the ones who broke away from Rome

because the Catholic Church compiled the Bible. You know the other “gospels” floating around that aren’t in the Bible, those aren’t in there because of Catholicism. All the various heresies like arianism were condemned by the Catholic Church. The early church is the Catholic Church.

You can’t remove books from the Bible, actively preach against tenants of the faith that have been present since Jesus walked on this Earth and hand wave it all away by saying it’s everyone’s history…when you reject that history.