The Catholic Church is fully Biblical

"My assumption would be that the Catholic Church uses and bases everything off of the bible." This is not what I am saying per se. What I am saying by "fully biblical" is that the Catholic Church does not contradict the Bible and vice versa. By "fully biblical", I mean that the teachings of the Catholic Church are either explicitly or indirectly taught in Scripture. "Now how does the Catholic Church have the right to claim the bible and claim they are the reason for which we have the bible today? Especially when the bible was created long before the church and there are jumps between different bible translations." You can argue that the OT was made before the Church but the NT you cannot because historically the Church is before the writings of the NT. "Now the exact date of Christ's birth is unknown to us, but even most bible scholars agree that it was not in december so why does the Catholic Church recognize this date to be Christ's birth? Well simply to make the convert to Catholic Church easier for the Heathen and Pagan worshippers during that time and with the pagan celebration of Saturnalia it eased the move over and could easily share celebration days." Marian T. Horvat answers a similar claim stating: "First, one must not simply assume that the early Christians only began to celebrate Christmas in the 4th century. Until the Edict of Milan was published in 313, Catholics were persecuted and met in catacombs. Hence, there was no public festivity. But they celebrated Christmas among themselves before that Edict, as hymns and prayers of the first Christians confirm. Second, this claim is based on unsound assumptions. As scholar Thomas Talley points out in his book The Origins of the Liturgical Year, Emperor Aurelian inaugurated the festival of the Birth of the Unconquered Sun trying to give new life " a rebirth " to a dying Roman Empire. It is much more likely, he argues, that the Emperor"s action was a response to the growing popularity and strength of the Catholic religion, which was celebrating Christ"s birth on December 25, rather than the other way around. There is no evidence that Aurelian"s celebration preceded the feast of Christmas, and more reason to believe that establishing this festival day " which never won popular support and soon died out " was an effort to give a pagan significance to a date already of importance to Roman Catholics..... The Catholic Church determined March 25 as the date of Our Lord"s Conception long before Aurelian decided to make his solar feast. For example, around 221 AD, Sexto Julio Africano wrote the Chronographiai in which he affirmed that the Annunciation was March 25. (6) Once the date of the Incarnation was established, it was a simple matter of adding nine months to arrive at the date of Our Lord"s birth - December 25. This date would not be made official until the late fourth century, but it was established long before Aurelian and Constantine. It had nothing to do with pagan festivals. " " Furthermore, Tertullian (one of its leading 2nd/3rd century writers, whom it sometimes refers to as "the father of Latin Christianity") warned that to participate in the winter celebrations made one beholding to pagan gods. There was one such celebration known as the Saturnalia that was celebrated by the heathen in late December.(http://www.cogwriter.com......)" Now God told us how to worship him, when to worship him, and told how bad it was to worship the wrong way. Now that goes against not only the bible but also it has no truth to it and almost is disrespectful towards god." Now Tertullian said "By us who are strangers to Sabbaths, and new moons, and festivals, once acceptable to God, the Saturnalia, the feasts of January, the Brumalia and Matronalia, are now frequented; gifts are carried to and fro, new year's day presents are made with din, and sports and banquets are celebrated with uproar" (Tertullian, On Idolatry, chap. 14, quoted by Hislop, p. 93). Tertullian obviously was stating that the no Christian should participate in the pagan holidays because they are honoring the pagan gods. We do not participate in pagan holidays but Christian holidays. The Christians were not even attempting to Christianize the feast but were actually participants of the celebrations. Tertullian says, "For, even if they had known them, they would not have shared the Lord's Day or Pentecost with us. For they would fear lest they would appear to be Christians. Yet, we are not apprehensive that we might appear to be pagans!" (quoted by David Bercot, editor, A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, 1998, p. 342). Do Christians look like pagans when they celebrate Christmas? How could they since they commemorate Christ and not a false pagan god? Who, other than you, have the apprehension that we appear pagan? You could argue that our practices seem similar to what the pagans did but a statement from the 1976 "AWAKE" answers this claim: "" What should be a Christian's attitude toward shapes and designs that have at some time or place been connected with false religion? " So the Christian needs to be primarily concerned about what? Not what a certain symbol or design possibly meant thousands of years ago or how it might be thought of on the other side of the world, but what it means now to most people where he lives. " With so many different designs having been used in false worship, if a person went to the trouble and took the time he might find an undesirable connection with almost every design he sees around him. But why do that? Would it not be needless upsetting? And is that the best use of one's time and attention?" Awake! 12/12/76, pages 12-15. The JW's watchtower even admits: "Whether an object is an idol or not depends on how it is viewed.....the fact that various creatures, plants and heavenly bodies - all parts of God's creative works - have been and still are being given veneration would not in itself unacceptable for decorative or ornamental purposes. Many things that were at one time worshipped by the ancients have lost their idolatrous significance and are generally regarded as being merely ornamental." WT 5-15-72 p.295 The pagan holidays like other things that at one time worshipped, have lost their idolatrous significance and are regarded as mere days. Sun-Sat come from the pagan calendar, should we disregard this as well? Finally, we should worship God on any day and to fuss about a specific day we give God special honor is petty and unimportant.