The
List of Bible Books Also Showing “the Apocrypha”
Today,
reply is on the differences among Catholic and Protestant Bibles.
Developing believers are wise to embrace the holy writings as sources
and tools to nourish spirit content from the makeup of GOD, provide
divine guidance, and further supply sacred knowledge. Even
so, the permanent change and transformation of the believer is
through operations of the Holy Spirit (also called, the Comforter;
the Holy Ghost; the Spirit of Prophecy; the Spirit of Truth). All
those on the earth who will be acknowledged by Jesus Christ as his
harvest at his coming will not be labeled Catholics, Jews, or
Protestants, yet, all will be children of the Father and joint-heirs
with Christ. Acknowledging the truth that all have sinned and come
short of the glory of GOD, it is correct to consider that (1) there
are only two kinds of people in the world, impenitent and penitent
sinners; (2) there are no black Christians, there are no white
Christians, there are only “Christian” Christians; (3) there will
be no denominations of believers, only those who are perfected
through GOD; and (4) the elements that now contribute to disunion
(e.g., arrogance; ethnicity; exaggerated pride; racism; regionalism; relying
on earthly languages and tongues such as Greek, Hebrew, or Latin)
will not exist within the perfected church of Jesus Christ. The
fighter in the “Yahoo! Answers” Religion and Spirituality public
forum who uses the ID “Anonymous” (no profile information shared)
posted the following:
Do
catholic and protestant bibles have a significant difference in their
bibles?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth
nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit,
and they are life. (John 6: 63, King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Christ Is The Head (07/12/2018); Knowing What To
Believe? (12/31/2017); The Apocryphal Books? (08/07/2015); Those Who
Read? (02/17/2015); Catholics, Protestants and The Trinity?
(10/12/2014); The Gift of Life Despised? (10/13/2014); The Bible is
Unchanging? (03/23/2014); Genuine Repentance? (03/24/2014)
“Anonymous”,
among the followers of Jesus Christ, many hold that authentic
Christian belief and practice appear only by believers becoming “born
again” and receiving fresh endowments of spirit substance from the
makeup of GOD (e.g., faith, gratitude, holiness, longsuffering,
lovingkindness, wisdom, wrath against sin), rather than by church
attendance, doctrine, policy, sacrifice, and service. The
differences among the Bibles shared by Catholic and Protestant
believers result from significant differences in their discernment
and acknowledgment of oneness without sameness among
sacred texts; their apprehension of covenant relationships and sacred
law; their historical development as institutions and social
organizations that express carnal, material and political views;
their reliance on sacred knowledge rather than academic,
scholastic, and secular knowledge as well as the differences
among what they acknowledge as their continuing divine commission,
their eternal purpose and work in the things yet to be fulfilled, and
the nearness of the Advent of Jesus Christ (we also say, his
appearing; the harvest; the Rapture; the Second Coming). Correctly
understood, the Bible is a collection of holy writings (we say, a
library of sacred books) that share a divine “point of view” with
finite created beings and living creatures, and has been provided by
GOD using thousands of events occurring within the lives of thousands
of people over the course of thousands of years. Inseparable aspects
of the divine fullness (we say, the Godhead; the Father, the Son, the
Holy Spirit) will be conveyed to every believer as rebirth (life
essence, breath, spirit, word). However, the instantaneous and
sudden process of GOD is gradual and progressive in such a way that
divinity is not to be understood as being “everywhere” “all the
time” responding to the specific needs of believers, for believers
will go “up and down” Jacob’s
ladder, so to speak, and believers will exist having different levels
of insight, maturity, and strength. Consider again the following
that uses language from the Bible:
(1.)
Ephesians 4: 4-7, King James Version (KJV): 4 There is one
body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your
calling; 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 One God and Father
of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. 7
But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of
the gift of Christ.
(2.)
Romans 6: 3-6, KJV: 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were
baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore
we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ
was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we
also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted
together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the
likeness of his resurrection: 6 Knowing this, that our
old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be
destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
(3.)
Ephesians 4: 11-16, KJV: 11 And he gave some, apostles; and some,
prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for
the edifying of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come in the unity
of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect
man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: 14
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and
carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and
cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; 15 But
speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which
is the head, even Christ: 16 From whom the whole body fitly
joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth,
according to the effectual working in the measure of every part,
maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, (4.) Romans 8: 5-9, KJV: 5 For they
that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they
that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be
carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is
life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against
God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye
are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of
God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is
none of his.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it
unto you according to your faith.
THE
BLACK PHOENIX
Washington,
DC
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