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To: DouglasKC

What do your table of contents say is the Canon of Scripture. When if you have a Table of contents, was that table of contents put together?


50 posted on 06/14/2023 11:32:57 AM PDT by CTrent1564
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To: CTrent1564
What do your table of contents say is the Canon of Scripture. When if you have a Table of contents, was that table of contents put together?

The putting together of the canon wasn't anything magical that Rome did. It was the consensus of the early church. The "canon" was being compiled and approved long before the Roman church put their stamp of approval on it.

For example Paul wrote:

1Ti 5:18  For the Scripture says, "YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE AN OX WHILE IT TREADS OUT THE GRAIN," and, "THE LABORER IS WORTHY OF HIS WAGES."

The first part of this is found in the Old Testament...but Paul also calls the second part "scripture" as well. And this appears (today) in Luke 10:7. So Paul at least consisidered and taught what Luke recorded as scripture.

Another example:

2Pe 3:15  and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you,  2Pe 3:16  as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures. 

Note that Peter lumps Paul's letters in with the rest of scripture.

In addition we also know that Paul's letters were circulated and considered authoritative by congregations other than those where they were sent.

Col 4:16  Now when this epistle is read among you, see that it is read also in the church of the Laodiceans, and that you likewise read the epistle from Laodicea. 

1Th 5:27  I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read to all the holy brethren.

So one should NOT have to grant authority to the Roman church for changing God's commandments simply because they approved of what the church had already compiled.

78 posted on 06/14/2023 11:49:51 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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