Since it was the church that put together the bible canon and it was was them that spread the teaching throughout the known world. Thoughts?
Food for thought-if it wasn't for the Roman Catholic church would Christianity have faded out into oblivion?
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truth_b_known
I agree 100%. The Roman Catholic Church is the writer of the New Testament and originator of Christianity.
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Biahi
I’ve heard more than one Protestant refer to the RCC as the “mother” church.
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snare&racket
Go get a great book called .... The Lost Christianities
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RubaDub
I don't think it would have faded out completely.
It would just be like old reruns of Seinfeld and Cheers that never seem to go away.
Rub a Dub
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LongHairGal
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You are probably right but we shall never know.
The Protestants came from the Catholics- and all these breakaway sects and cults in the US came from them.
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smiddy3
So it took JEHOVAH with his HOLY SPIRIT the best part of 3-4 Centuries to determine which BOOKS of SCRIPTURE were to make up the NEW TESTAMENT .?
I know their were heaps of Books of Scriptures ,dozens and dozens ,but for The Almighty God to take 3-4 centuries to make a decision ( by holy spirit of Course ) and to no other but the Catholic Church ? you do have to wonder ?
Don`t you ?
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resolute Bandicoot
If it were not for the Catholic Church and their wicked wicked crusades and John Sobieski Catholic King of Poland that turned back the muslin hoards from the gaits of Vienna in 1683, we would all be living in the dark ages, speaking arabic and raising our butts to allah.
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fulltimestudent
resolute Bandicoot:: "we would all be living in the dark ages, speaking arabic and raising our butts to allah."
Umm, well, maybe!
First of all, I do not think it can be argued that Islamic West Asia lived like the so-called 'dark ages' of an earlier Western Europe. That idea is a late Western fantasy.
Second, if the Mongolians had continued their European campaign we'd all be speaking Mongolian and instead of listening to Rock and Roll we'd be listening to Mongolian throat singing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rmo3fKeveo
Why didn't it happen? A possible reason (it has been thought) was the death of the Great Khan Ogedei, which meant that the leaders of the Mongol Armies in Europe returned to Mongolia to elect a new leader.
Quote: "During 1241, most of the Mongol forces were resting on the Hungarian Plain. In late March 1242, they began to withdraw. The most common reason given for this withdrawal is the Great Khan Ögedei's death on December 11, 1241. Ögedei Khan died at the age of fifty-six after a binge of drinking during a hunting trip, which forced most of the Mongolian army to retreat back to Mongolia so that the princes of the blood could be present for the election of a new great khan. This is attested to by one primary source: the chronicle of Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, who after visiting the Mongol court, stated that the Mongols withdrew for this reason; he further stated that God had caused the Great Khan's death to protect Latin Christendom."
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasion_of_Europe
Another reason may have bee Donald Trump and Scott Morrison's bete noire - "climate change*"
Quote: "In 1241, the Mongol army marched into Hungary, defeating the Polish and Hungarian armies and forcing the Hungarian king to flee. In 1242, despite meeting no significant military resistance, the Mongols abruptly packed up and left.
Now, a new study of the climate in Eastern Europe that year suggests a reason for this mysterious military retreat: The Mongols got bogged down. Literally.
A cold and snowy winter yielded to a particularly wet spring in Hungary in 1242, according to data from tree rings. As a result, the grasslands of Hungary turned to marsh, said study researcher Nicola Di Cosmo, a historian at Princeton University. The Mongols, dependent on their horses, wouldn't have been able to move effectively across the squishy land, and their steeds would have had few fields to graze."
Stephanie Pappas May 27, 2016 inLiVEScience - Link: https://www.livescience.com/54902-mystery-of-mongol-retreat-solved.html
* A more accurate description would be a weather event, rather than climate change.