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To: blue-duncan
It didn’t. It affirmed what the churches had been using all along and it wasn’t “The Church”. It was many churches who sent representatives to the council to affirm the canon. The standard was the scriptures, not the “Church”.

You are re-wiritng the history. but then Protestants make up their theology; why not history as well? It's pathetic.

It affirmed what the churches had been using all along and it wasn’t “The Church

You are wrong. St. Ignatius wrote as early as 105 AD that there is only one, Catholic Church, not many 'churches.' St. Justin martyr certainly did not speak of "churches" and neither did St. Irenaeus, or St. Clement of Alexandria, and so on. The canon as we know today was first proposed by St. Athanasius in the middle of the 4th century. It was accepted by the Church as a whole, as a standard, 30years later. That means that before 360 AD there was NO standard Christian Canon as we know it today and that many books we consider inspired today were either not listed or recognized as inspired by many churches prior to that.

Those are facts. Then there is Protestant fantasy.

3,418 posted on 08/20/2007 9:27:49 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50

There is only one church? Which one, the Eastern Orthodox, the Roman Catholic, or what?


3,420 posted on 08/20/2007 9:31:34 PM PDT by irishtenor (There is no "I" in team, but there are two in IDIOT.)
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