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Perhaps you should look into the First Council of Nicea which decided which BOOKS (after all each Gospel is an individual book) went into the Group of Books we now call the New Testament.

MANY books (considered by many to be on par with those books now in the New Testament) were labeled as heresy and burned...as were many of those who protested the exclusion of those books.

..and the person who called that Council was Constantine I ...who was NOT Baptized a Christian until just before he died.

While the MAIN purpose of that Council was NOT to decide which Books were to be considered Holy...that WAS one of the outcomes.

...and just what do the LDS say the Book of Mormon is??? They claim it's another witness to the Divinity of Christ. Nothing more.

Seems to me the only person with their head in a moist wet place is you.

redrock

Do a little study on your own instead of drinking Mormonism kool-aid. Take the 'Gospel of Thomas' for instance, as a rejected book for the canon. While twelve of the thirteen letters written by Paul are quoted by the authors dated to the dates I gave you in the chronology above (post #33), the Gospel of Thomas didn't exist yet so it was not a recognized text from a witness of Jesus Christ. The same criteria was used to decide which of the available texts were to be included in the canon. That's why I gave the timeline, to help you avoid making a fool of yourself as you now have done by assaulting the Council of Nicea with your specious argument. Now go do a bit research at non-LDS Christian sources and find out the real truth of how the canon was arrived at. ... Study to show yourself approved.

"..and the person who called that Council was Constantine I ...who was NOT Baptized a Christian until just before he died." Um, when did Constantine get born again?... That's right, you nor I can say! Don't strain too hard their, young one.

"While the MAIN purpose of that Council was NOT to decide which Books were to be considered Holy...that WAS one of the outcomes." Try reading from sources not fed to you by LDS dogma.

"...and just what do the LDS say the Book of Mormon is??? They claim it's another witness to the Divinity of Christ. Nothing more." But the BM is not a 'witness' because it is a total fabrication by a peepstone liar who tried to pass off a rewrite of the King James Bible in order to add prophecy of himself! He proved himself a false prophet when he fabricated the book of abraham by a pretend 'translation' of an Egyptian papri for the dead.

"Seems to me the only person with their head in a moist wet place is you." Son, get your childish redundant head out of your ass. Euphemism aren't hiding your ignorance.

They claim it's another witness to the Divinity of Christ. Nothing more.

Sorry Son; but you seem not to know your leaders words:

Oh... in my BoM 1981 edition, on the page with the introduction (4th sheet from front) has these lines...

"The record is now published in many languages as a new and additional witness that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God and that all who will come unto him and obey the laws and ordinances of his gospel may be saved.

Concerning this record the Prophet Joseph Smith said: "I told the brethern that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book."