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To: gbcdoj

"PS: What else is "universal acceptance" but an appeal to the authority of the Church? I'm surprised you don't see this"

... but not an appeal to the heirarchy - i.e. the "authoritative, infallable Church". Rather an appeal to universal acceptance among all Christians.


39 posted on 11/12/2005 4:17:57 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: PetroniusMaximus

So you accept the books of the Bible on the basis of their universal acceptance by all early Christians? (or rather, all early Catholics - I doubt you're including the followers of Marcion or the Jewish Christian sectarians in this rank)

I take it, then, that you either receive both Hebrews and Wisdom as Scripture, or reject both, since the so-called "apocrypha" had just as much acceptance in the early Church as the NT "deuterocanon" (Hebrews, Apocalypse, 2 & 3 John, James, Jude). See my cite above from St. Augustine on the unanimous consent given to the Book of Wisdom.


42 posted on 11/12/2005 4:53:11 PM PST by gbcdoj (Let us ask the Lord with tears, that according to his will so he would shew his mercy to us Jud 8:17)
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