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To: Aquinasfan

I'm not going to join in a fight over dueling resources, but I do have a few questions. I've noted time and again that Catholics state Luther "threw out" several books from the Bible. But clearly, the Catholic Church is guilty of the same offense. While adapting the Septaugint translation of the Hebrew canon as the "Old Testament", the Catholic Church "threw out" the books of Esdras, the Prayer of Manasseh and 3 and 4 Maccabees. If it is justifiable for the Catholic Church to throw out some of the deuterocanonical books, why is it unjustifiable for Luther to have done the same thing? After all, Luther rejected the deuterocanonical books before the Catholic Church difinitevely canonized its Bible at the Council of Trent.


382 posted on 01/31/2005 11:51:04 AM PST by Rokke
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To: Rokke
If it is justifiable for the Catholic Church to throw out some of the deuterocanonical books, why is it unjustifiable for Luther to have done the same thing?

It's a question of authority.

The Church has the authority to determine the canon of Scripture because It's Christ's Church. "If he doesn't listen to the church, treat him as a heathen or publican" --Jesus.

What authority did Luther have to determine the canon of Scripture? He didn't claim infallibility. And he wasn't even true to his principle of "the Bible alone." If he was, he would have accepted the Bible that was used by Christians of his time.

383 posted on 01/31/2005 11:58:47 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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