KINADINA AT SINUNOG DAW NG IGLESIA KATOLIKA ANG BIBLIYA? : Catholic Church Chained and Burned Bible?
Is it true that the Bible was chained in the middle ages so that people could not read it?
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The Bible was chained in the middle ages to preserved it from destruction and from theft. The church did it to prevent from being stolen. Remember that there were only few Bible that time, and those were hand written furthermore, those bible were very precious due to its scarcity. For example, a Telephone directory is usually tied by the owner so that it will not be brought to other places or misplaced by the users.
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Non-Catholics added that the Catholic Church prohibited the people to read the Bible by putting it in the Index of Forbidden Books. That is not true because what were included in the Index are just protestant versions which are lacking of 7 books or erroneous translations. The most popular is the King James Version that Catholics should not use since it has several errors.
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Did you know that in History, protestants had also chained the Bible for more than 300 years. Nonetheless, we did not accuse them of prohibiting their members in accessing the Bible.
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Non-Catholics had frequently accused the Catholic Church that they burned Bibles so that people could not read it. That is a false accusation. If it is true that the Catholic Church wanted to destroy all Bibles, then she had an ample time to do so for 1,500 years before protestant sects emerged. But why there are still Bible today? The Church is not against sincere and honest translations to vernacular dialect, but to the erroneous translations made by heretics (e.g. Wycliffe and Tyndale). It is necessary to destroy erroneous translations in order the preserved the integrity of the Holy Scripture. If people who read the same bible version have different interpretations to what they had read, how much more to those erroneous and twisted bible translations?
Even in the modern times, the most efficient and practical way to protect the original and legit product is to burn or destroy those fake and imitations
