I Don't Get The Catholic Confession Thing

[Sethomas]

Kelly: Of course the Church has a bloody history, but it's really not as bad as many people sincerely believe. No other institution has lasted the nineteen centuries that Catholicism has, so it should be expected that the Church should have to push now and then for its own survival. This doesn't make it evil, it makes it human. That is the flaw of the church, that it is a mortal institution of divine nature.

Vibe: What do you really think the Church is hiding? The secrets of the pyramids?

NT Apocrypha emphasizes God more because they were written by Aryans and Gnostics, who had little emphasis on Christ himself and so wouldn't care about the Church.

Kevin: Christian understanding of the New Testament comes from a Catholic conference of (I believe) the 4th century called the Council of Nicea. By that time there were hundreds of Christian writings, and the purpose of the Council was to determine which were divinely inspired. Once the list was made, the books were handed over to Jerome who translated both the New Testament and the Septuagent into Latin for the sake of Universality. The books that didn't make the cut for divine inspiration are called Apocryphal writings. They're not spiritually revelent, but many make good reading.

Because Martin Luther's teachings were disproven by some books of the Old Testament, especially parts of Daniel and II Maccabees, he merely included them in the apendix he called "The Apocrypha". I could go on and on about how wrong he was, but that's the reason why the word is often used to talk about the deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament.

Ronnie: It has everything to do with Christ and the Bible.