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To: Petrosius

Wrong again.

Luther’s Roman contemporaries were ‘taking books out of the Bible’ just like Luther was, and you aren’t condemning them, are you? Most of them the same books even.

The only explanation is that Rome allowed such things until Trent.


71 posted on 10/07/2019 10:48:23 PM PDT by Luircin
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To: Luircin
The only explanation is that Rome allowed such things until Trent.

Church councils are rare and exceptional events. Given the great expense and effort in holding one, they are used only to discuss pressing matters of the faith. They are not called to settle disputes among academics. While there were voices that disputed the status of the Deuterocanonical books, these had no real impact on the beliefs and practices of the faithful. The Deuterocanonical books were included in the volumes of the Vulgate Bible and were used in the liturgies of the Church, all without distinction between them and the Protocanonical books. It was only with Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation that the idea of rejecting these books became popular, thus the need for a dogmatic statement at Trent.

99 posted on 10/08/2019 4:56:54 PM PDT by Petrosius
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