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To: magisterium
You obfuscate - there is no disagreement on the historical sequence of the canonization process. What is objectionable is the notion that God is not the author of Scripture and that those that did decide on the canon were anything other than tools in God's hand. The historical record of Moses and the exodus is unquestioned. The process of canonization (apart from arguments over the apocryphal or deutro-canonical books) is historical fact. The objection is the RC Church taking any credit for the final canon - the prerogative of God alone.
1,267 posted on 02/21/2006 8:22:05 PM PST by gscc
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To: gscc

Then you err in that you cannot discern that all this talk about the Catholic Church and the scriptual canon *presupposes* that the Holy Spirit guides the process. The Church has always referred to God as the "primary Author" of Scripture, and the humans who physically wrote it as the "secondary authors." However, unlike Islam, which teaches that Mohammed was nothing more than a dictation machine writing what Allah specifically told him word for word, we say that the humans involved in Scripture really were inspired by God, but wrote in their own way, and in their own style.

Anyway, no one claims that the Catholic Church deserves primary credit for Scripture. God inspired the authors of the books in their writing, and then led the Church in the compilation, discerning, vetting and canonizing process, as well as continuing to lead the Church in the interpretation of Scripture.


1,365 posted on 02/22/2006 2:03:33 PM PST by magisterium
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