Does the Catholic Church teach from the New Testament of the Bible?

Answer 1

Yes the catholic church does teach from the New Testament. If you go to the library or a book store, you can find the New American bible. this is the catholic bible. It contains all of the old and new testament, plus additional books. The catholic church was the first original church started by Jesus, the son of God. As time went on, people disagreed with some books that the catholic church said were divinely inspired. These people broke off into their own groups of churches and created all of the different denominations we have today. They also took books out of the original bible, bc they did not feel they were divinely inspired.

AnswerYes, they do, but not as claimed by the first respondent.Jesus did not start any religion or church as we understand it today. The closest interpretation I can relate to is the concept of a body of believers, rendered "church" in the King James' New Testament. The Son of God does not claim to be a religion, nor does His Father. It is a faith. The "church" is not Abraham, the Pope or Billy Graham but rather a "body of believers" in Christ, the Messianic son of God. The Catholic church was founded in failing Rome as Emporor Constantine decreed it for politically expedient reasons. But I do not question Constantine's soul and conversion, just as I also respect the contributions made by Catholics for Christianity. But I cannot abide the claim that Jesus was the first Catholic. Grotesquely absurd. The Catholic church has individuals responsible for the salvation of many souls but their history is more about exerting controlling unbiblical practices meant to subdue the masses. For example, there is no Biblical justification for "Confession" to a man in a wooden box, only to Almighty God through Christ's blood in your prayers. A Catholic priest is not God. The analogy of being children is to God, not a priest. Another fair criticism of Catholicism is "Maryology", or, the unmeritted worship of her image and other icons, even Jesus, expressly warned against by God in the Ten Commandments' admonishment about graven images and holding other gods above Him. The Mexican with an image of a bleeding Christ painted on his new truck, or Mel Gibson's movie, or the fish on the bumper of a car that just rudely cut me off in traffic are all graven images.The Catholic church uses the New Testament but also abuses it. The message of God to people by Christ has never had anything to do with Catholicism or any other religion. Roman Catholic AnswerThe Catholic Church was founded by Our Blessed Lord to teach the faith and bring people to God. As part of teaching the faith It wrote and assembled the New Testament. The Catholic Church does teach from the New Testament, but before that it wrote the New Testament as part of Its teaching. The New Testament, as we have it today was not assembled and approved by the Catholic Church until the fifth century. The Church had been teaching the faith for four and a half centuries before there was an official "New Testament", and we can thank the Catholic Church for putting it together, approving it and keeping it free from error for the following fifteen centuries.