Authority doesn’t come from canonization. It comes from authorship.
The Scriptures already existed—and were already authoritative—long before the Church or the New Testament. The Law, the Prophets, and the Writings were preserved and guarded through the Second Temple period, largely by the Pharisees. Those are the very Scriptures Jesus quoted and Paul argued from. They didn’t wait for a church council to make them authoritative—they already were.
Canonization doesn’t create authority; it recognizes it. If authority only existed after canon lists, then the Ten Commandments weren’t authoritative at Sinai, the prophets spoke without authority in their own lifetimes, and Jesus appealed to texts that were still “pending approval.” Scripture itself rejects that idea.
The New Testament didn’t redefine the Old—it added apostolic testimony about Christ to an already-authoritative body of Scripture. The Catholic Bible, like every Christian Bible, is a later collection, downstream from Jewish Scripture and apostolic authorship—not the original source of authority.
So no—the “original Bible” isn’t the Catholic Bible.
It’s the Scriptures preserved centuries before Christianity, later joined by the New Testament—not authorized by canonization, but by God speaking through His authors.
2026-01-16 15:59:10
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gaminggoober :
They were still rejected and considered not God inspired by the Jews before Jesus ministry. They officially affirmed the deuterocanonical 1500’s. They didn’t get accepted as “canon” by the early church almost 400yrs after Christ. Which is around the time Rome adopted Christianity. Aka the actual brith of the Roman Catholic Church.
2026-01-16 23:09:04
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The Narrow Road :
Jesus affirmed the Old Testament. The prophets, the law of Moses, and the psalms. It’s that easy.
2026-01-17 05:38:51
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