To: Mrs. Don-o
Were it not for the inspired activities, especially liturgical activities, of the Church, we would not have Scriptures. Nonsense!
Jesus referred to Scripture long before Catholicism existed.
The Jews recognized all of the OT as it exists in the *Protestant* Bible as Scripture by the time of Christ, before the Catholic church added books to their canon at the Council of Trent.
243 posted on
05/27/2017 1:57:28 AM PDT by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: metmom
You’ve entered a fact-free zone!
Facts no longer matter.
It’s the Twilight Rome!
To: metmom
I'm saying the Holy Spirit used the Church founded by Christ as His instrument to faithfully gather, preserve, transmit, translate, and authorize the sacred canon, and, in the case of the NT, to write the Scriptures.
246 posted on
05/27/2017 8:18:22 AM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
("It's better to be slapped with the Truth than kissed with a Lie." - Russian Proverb)
To: metmom
In the OT, God used the People of God mentioned in Scripture, to to actually bring us Scripture: to write it, copy it, select it an set it apart from among other non-Scriptural writings, distribute it, preserve it, transmit it. God does the same thing --- uses human instruments --- in the NT and in the history of the church.
You don't dispute that, do you?
247 posted on
05/27/2017 9:01:08 AM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
("It's better to be slapped with the Truth than kissed with a Lie." - Russian Proverb)
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