[NYer]

For your consideratin and discussion.

[ArrogantBustard]

Almost any discussion on this (Religion) forum will demonstrate his point.

[Desdemona]

Since the canon was closed by a bunch of bishops, some of whom ended up being canonized (St. Jerome among them), I thought this question should have long been settled.

[karenbarinka]

So, how do you reconcile novel teachings of the Pope and Bishops which are clearly anti-Biblical? The Bible is very explicit about capital punishment for murderers, but for the past 10 years, the Church has begun to oppose the death penalty and even worse, begun to equate opposition to the death penalty with opposition to abortion.

Conversely, speaking about abortion, the development of the Church's teaching against it shows a perfect example of how sola scriptura was not sufficiently clear, and the Church was needed to explicitly define doctrine against abortion. But a couple thousand years of the Church being right against abortion is being muddied by new, anti-Biblical revisionism about the death penalty.