A Couple of Notes
The Catholic Church invented the Bible--they decided what was Bible and what was not Bible, they actually voted on the gospels to be included and those not to be, the edited the Bible and especially the part we all know as the New Testament--it was literally decided by a vote, the Gnostic gospels fall nowhere in the new testament not do the James versions which are kept at the Vatican but well known, the protestants may have split from the CHURCH, but they took 66 books the Catholic church prescribed as the Bible. In fact, there was no Bible until the Catholic Church created one some 300 years after the death of Christ. The King James Version of the Bible, which most people are familiar with, was the 45th in a long line of translations and retranslation of the Bible. Therefore, on that note the Protestant church is very much in tune with the Catholic Church theologically speaking, just not in practical agreement. It must also be understood that there are various versions and editions, the versions being different translations and the editions being edited or modifications of the “versions.”
Secondly, perhaps you misunderstood youth to mean children. It is indeed the young who must change the church. Martin Luther, who started the protestant reform, was in his 40's when he set the world of religion on its ear with his theses. Compared to the church fathers, he was a young man. Change in religion has always come about through the younger, mature adults of the church as the elders have more interest in keeping the status quo. Martin Luther King Jr. set the elders to rocking because he spoke out from the pulpit and politically--this was considered subversive to the ways of the church and he was a relatively young man. Right now, gospel music is doing much the same. Kirk Franklin is a good example. He is changing the way religious music is viewed. Many do not like it, but it will not change if the elders are expected to do it.
True enough that molestation charges are not hawked in the newspapers they are when it is church scandal, but it definitely a problem everywhere in society. Boy Scout camps, Sunday schools, youth camps, fathers molesting their daughters, politicians and you name it--it is a problem that is not endemic to the church or religion. And as far as Canon Law is concerned, The Council of Trent decided that the Pope is the "legitimate" successor to Peter--not God--and each Pope is said to be the spiritual successor to the one before him dating back to Peter. Of course, few people know that there have been multitudes of Popes with sometime three serving at the same time because of politics. The Pope is not considered God, although there is a legacy of infallibility connected to the papacy, it is not prescribed as such, but only as a servant of God and the successor of Peter. Of course, it is a convoluted idea, but much of what is organized religion escapes rationality under the guiding hand of men.
Before the King James version of the Bible ever saw the light of day there were at least 70 versions before it including the Tyndale Bible, one the protestant chuch's greatest scholars. Tyndale ended up fleeing for his life, although later his version of the Bible served as the model for the most popular version--the King James Version.
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The Catholic Church invented the Bible--they decided what was Bible and what was not Bible, they actually voted on the gospels to be included and those not to be, the edited the Bible and especially the part we all know as the New Testament--it was literally decided by a vote, the Gnostic gospels fall nowhere in the new testament not do the James versions which are kept at the Vatican but well known, the protestants may have split from the CHURCH, but they took 66 books the Catholic church prescribed as the Bible. In fact, there was no Bible until the Catholic Church created one some 300 years after the death of Christ. The King James Version of the Bible, which most people are familiar with, was the 45th in a long line of translations and retranslation of the Bible. Therefore, on that note the Protestant church is very much in tune with the Catholic Church theologically speaking, just not in practical agreement. It must also be understood that there are various versions and editions, the versions being different translations and the editions being edited or modifications of the “versions.”
Secondly, perhaps you misunderstood youth to mean children. It is indeed the young who must change the church. Martin Luther, who started the protestant reform, was in his 40's when he set the world of religion on its ear with his theses. Compared to the church fathers, he was a young man. Change in religion has always come about through the younger, mature adults of the church as the elders have more interest in keeping the status quo. Martin Luther King Jr. set the elders to rocking because he spoke out from the pulpit and politically--this was considered subversive to the ways of the church and he was a relatively young man. Right now, gospel music is doing much the same. Kirk Franklin is a good example. He is changing the way religious music is viewed. Many do not like it, but it will not change if the elders are expected to do it.
True enough that molestation charges are not hawked in the newspapers they are when it is church scandal, but it definitely a problem everywhere in society. Boy Scout camps, Sunday schools, youth camps, fathers molesting their daughters, politicians and you name it--it is a problem that is not endemic to the church or religion. And as far as Canon Law is concerned, The Council of Trent decided that the Pope is the "legitimate" successor to Peter--not God--and each Pope is said to be the spiritual successor to the one before him dating back to Peter. Of course, few people know that there have been multitudes of Popes with sometime three serving at the same time because of politics. The Pope is not considered God, although there is a legacy of infallibility connected to the papacy, it is not prescribed as such, but only as a servant of God and the successor of Peter. Of course, it is a convoluted idea, but much of what is organized religion escapes rationality under the guiding hand of men.
Before the King James version of the Bible ever saw the light of day there were at least 70 versions before it including the Tyndale Bible, one the protestant chuch's greatest scholars. Tyndale ended up fleeing for his life, although later his version of the Bible served as the model for the most popular version--the King James Version.
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