Where We Got the Bible: Our Debt to the Catholic Church

by Henry Grey Graham and Rt. Rev. Henry G. Graham

Book Overview

Are Catholics anti-Bible? Who compiled the biblical text? How was the Bible preserved? What role does the Bible play in the Catholic Faith? In Where We Got the Bible, Bishop Henry G. Graham explains how the Catholic Church compiled the sacred text, how medieval monks preserved it, and how Catholic scholars first gave Christians the Bible in their own languages. Along the way, Graham refutes myths about Catholic opposition to Scripture. To his lively...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888992042
• ISBN13: 9781888992045
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Catholic Answers Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

The Bible didn't fall from Heaven. Discover its origins!

Reverend Henry G. Graham provides a compelling examination of Scripture and how it came to be as we now know it. The picture that emerges is that while divinely inspired it is the work of human tradition.This excellent resource explains how the Church compiled the New Testament Canon, the work of the Monks of the early Church, refutes the Protestant argument of the "Bible alone", and explains some of the erroneous Protestant versions of the Bible.The book also includes Reverend Graham's own conversion story "From the Kirk to the Catholic Church" which the original version does not contain.No religious bookshelf can be complete without this title.Although not credited, I served as a freelance editor on the reprinting of this book.

The Catholic Church gave the world the Bible

An accurate and concise account on how the Bible came to be. Shows how the Catholic Church has defended holy scripture throughout the ages, despite the accusations of protestants and the Church's enemies. Accurately describes the rise and fall of badly translated protestant Bibles such as Tyndale's Bible (the english translation of Luther's Bible), the sinner's Bible (ommitted the word 'not' from some of the ten Commandments), etc. The English Crown ordered these versions burned or destroyed by decree when the errors were found. Errors and additions that have been handed down until this day (such as the addition of the word 'alone' by Luther to maneuver justification, and the addition of 'for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory.....'). This book is a must have for anyone wishing to learn which books were originally contained in the Canon of scripture and who put them there. Shows why the books of the Septuagint (referred to as the Apocrypha by protestants) are included in the Bible, and were in the Jewish Canon during the time of Jesus.

A Catholic apologists' 'must-have'!

After converting to Catholicism two years ago, I began a real 'scholarly' journey for the truth. The holy spirit led me out of Protestantism, but, the spirit wasn't through with me yet. It led me to this work and now I wonder how I was ever able to live without the the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church. This book has inspired me to take the study of scripture seriously and in a new and 'truth-bearing' light. I will purchase several copies for my relatives and friends! Pax

Am clear and concise review of catholic bible history

Even though originally published in 1911, this book loses nothing. This short paperback is written clearly and concisely in an attempt to counter charges that the Catholic Church detests the Bible and has burned Bibles in the past to keep their flock from reading it. History is clear: for 1500 years after Christ there was only the Catholic Church. The Church decided which books were truly inspired and those that were not. The Church laborioulsy protected the Bible through persecutions and barbarian invasions. This little book certainly is worth reading.

ALL BIBLE-READERS SHOULD STUDY THIS FANTASTIC BOOK

Too often have readers of the Bible come to take the Bible for granted, on blind faith that the Good Book is the "inspired word of God".By reading true Bible history as to how our modern day Bible came to us,we can better appreciate its value. Hendry Graham in his book "Where We Got the Bible From" does just that: dispeling entrenched notions of false translations that come to be extolled as "God's Holy Word" today,and showing us the light,in historical contexts using both both learned Catholic and esp. Protestant sources,to show the Bible's true origins as the insipired Word of God. A truly exciting read, besides Partick O'Hare's "The Facts About Luther"[TAN BOOKS,Rockford, Illinois]. Go for it!!!