The Bible is the written Word of God. It is collections of writings of men of faith both Jew and Christian which were inspired by the Holy Spirit and gathered in the order of the providence of God.

The Bible is called holy or sacred to indicate its divine authorship and to indicate the nature of the truths it contains and the purpose for which it is written -which is the salvation of mankind.

We are destined to a supernatural end by God. In keeping with God’s divine decree it follows that it is necessary that God’s purpose be supernaturally revealed, that God be known and His counsels and goodness be made manifest.

These writings were placed by Jesus in care of His Church. This heavenly knowledge is the written portions of the divine tradition that is formed of the Holy Word of God and historic tradition and makes up the font of doctrine and teaching in the Church founded by Christ. Not to know the Bible is to be needy in knowing God.

The Bible consists of the Old Testament which is 46 volumes written before the coming of Christ, and of the New Testament which is 27 books written since.

The Old Testament explains and leads up to the New Testament. The New Testament does not do away with the Old as some teach but crowns the Old. God is the author of both Testaments which are both to be received with piety and reverence. They are both protected and handed down since from ancient times.

The Bible is Revelation which may be defined as the communication of truths by God to man through supernatural means. God did not disclose the truths of revelation to man all at once but gradually with passing of time. Revelation of those truths which God has communicated to the human race began with Adam and Eve and ended with the death of the last Apostle of Christ who is Saint John.

There are two parts or phases of Revelation from God.

The Old Testament is the first phase which is pre-Christian and which has three stages : Primitive revelation made to Adam and Eve; Patriarchal revelation made to the patriarchs, such as Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph; and Mosaic or Prophetic revelation made to Moses and the prophets.

The second phase of Revelation from God is the New Testament which is that phase which is Christian revelation. It is the most important for it contains the truths revealed to us by Jesus ( God Himself in the flesh of man) either directly or through His chosen Apostles and His Church. It includes the most profound and the most important mysteries of our Faith. Among them is the Unity and Trinity of God, the fact that God united a human nature to His divine nature in the Incarnation of the Second Person of the Holy Trinity. Another mystery of our faith is the Redemption of the fallen human race by the sacrificial death of the God-Man Jesus Christ. And another is the Church Christ founded( The Catholic Church) with the foods of God( The Seven Sacraments of Christ).

Of the Foods of God (God’s Seven Sacraments)especially nourishing is the Holy Eucharist( The Body and Blood of Christ)over which the first great apostasy from Christ resulted (John 6:66)and of which Christ wills that all His people be restored to in this last hour of the last days of His coming again.

I say what I say as one chosen by God to the task. Discern as you must. But discern with prayer and sound doctrine that you do not come against God in this matter and follow after the spirit of the antichrist who works to as many as he can reject and attack Christ in the Holy Eucharist.

The Holy Scriptures are the foundation of all the liturgical worship of God which goes on in the Church which Christ founded. And as I write in my mission from God about the Bible it is not wrong but right to say: God wills that all the other Christians of His who have their roots in His Church, the Catholic Church, come to partake of the foods of God.

Very important also to Jesus is the fact that Mary is truly the Mother of God which is sadly not seen as so by many bearing the mark of Christ. She is our Queen who takes her place at the right hand of God-a place of recognized and reserved honor. ( Psalm 45:7-10)

The Old Testament was almost entirely written in the Hebrew language between the years 1400B.C. and about 100 B.C. The original manuscripts of this part of the Bible are lost. This is due to the fact that many were written on papyrus( Egyptian paper made from reeds), which is perishable. But we have correct copies of the originals, some made in the fourth and fifth centuries, when sheep or calf-skin ( parchment or vellum) were used to write on because they were more lasting.

The earliest manuscripts of Holy Scripture down to the fifth century were for the most part rolled in scrolls. Down until about the fifteenth century the huge volume of the Bible was copied by hand again and again by Catholic monks and nuns in monasteries. It often took the lifetime of more than one copyist to complete one Bible. These copies, called manuscripts or codices, were bound in a book form with which we are familiar. The entire world is indebted to the guardianship and labors of the Catholic Church.

The invention of paper and printing in the year 1450 brought about a revolution in bookmaking. The first complete book to come off Guttenberg’s press was the Catholic Bible. One of the few perfect copies of which is now preserved in the Library of Congress .

After the invention of the printing press the Bible in its totality was quickly spread and translations of the Catholic Bible were made in the languages of Europe, Asia, and Africa. The most important translations of the Bible are the Septuagint, the Vulgate and the Douay-Rheims.

In the year 1611 an English Protestant version was printed called the King James Version. It contains errors and is missing certain Books. While most who read this Version of the Bible do not know any better and are not doing anything wrong but are doing something very right when reading it, nevertheless it would be better that they had all of God’s Word to read. But to have and read any of the Word of God prayerfully is a good thing.

This passage of the Holy Bible still holds true both for those in the past and for those in the now: ” I myself give witness to all who hear the prophetic words of this book. If anyone adds to these words, God will visit him with all the plagues described herein! If anyone takes away from the words of this prophetic book, God will take away his share in the tree of life and the holy city described here! ” (Rev. 22:18-19)

Important to note is that Jesus never made salvation dependent upon the ability to read or to own a Bible. Jesus did not command His Apostles to go and write down everything I have said so that the people can read it. Rather Jesus did say : Go and preach! Go and teach!” His truths were to be spread mainly by the spoken word.

To the ignorant, the unwary, and to the self-seeking, the Bible can be twisted to yield almost any meaning a person may want to read into it. The Bible itself gives us warning on this score. St Peter in his second Epistle (2 Peter 3:16) speaking of the writings of St. Paul says: ” There are certain passages in them hard to understand. The ignorant and the unstable distort them ( just as they do the rest of Scripture) to their own ruin.” Beware for so many in Christendom are on their way to their destruction over this kind of wrong doing.

“Jesus is coming again soon. He wants us all, Catholic and Protestant alike ,reading prayerfully His Holy Word and acting upon it. He wants us all on the same page preparing for His return according to His will and not our own. So let us all read the Holy Bible and read it with God in prayer. Let us be careful not to subscribe to the theory of private judgment which has led to the denial of absolute truth.

Many today claim that truth and goodness are relative terms. Many are of the mindset that something is true as long as the generality of men find it helpful. They think it good as long as it seems to work and they see it in some way as an action contributing to the welfare and happiness of humanity. And so we see sins like the sins of abortion and that of sodomy ( homosexual acts)for example being embraced as ok.

It is not for us to pick and choose and to adjust God’s revelation to our own preferences and our own desires or conveniences. Whatever God has said is so. And it is so always and for everybody. Sodomy and same sex marriage are abominations to God! As is Abortion an abomination to God! Go along with the modernism which has crept into Christendom and you will not find life on high with Jesus Christ but death of your soul and eternal damnation and suffering. Twist the Holy Word of God to your liking and you are evil.

The Bible is God’s letter to us which is inspired but not dictated by Him and is written by many authors in different times and places telling us the Good News of our salvation. Whatever belief or religion others may have none of the sacred books of the various peoples and other great religions even approaches the Bible in grandeur, in high moral teaching, in beauty, and in comfort for the heart of man and in the magnificence of its promises.

The Bible’s message is: God’s revealed works of creation, provision, judgment, deliverance, his covenant, and his promises. That God has visited our earth by the name Jesus. That He is not as a mere prophet. That He became one of us and lived among us, His creatures, showing us the way, and giving us the means to be His children sharing His own blessed and eternal life.

Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Your brother in Christ , Eddie