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To: NYer

I’ll stick to the Bible, thanyouverymuch.

And this fairy tale about a perpetual virgin! LOL....


62 posted on 10/21/2007 8:39:23 AM PDT by Eagle Eye (If you agree with Democrats you agree with America's enemies.)
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To: Eagle Eye

I’m not a Catholic, but you ought to be more specific if you wish to question Mary’s perpetual virginity ... HINT: if Jesus can appear in a locked room without using the door or window, can leave a sealed rock tomb without rolling away the stone, there is little to leaving Mary’s womb without using the ‘usual’ passageway of birthing.


68 posted on 10/21/2007 10:25:13 AM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support. Defend life support for others in the womb.)
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To: Eagle Eye; MHGinTN
I’ll stick to the Bible, thanyouverymuch.

You mean the one compiled by the Catholic Church. The list of books that comprise the Bible is referred to as the canon. There was no canon of scripture in the early Church; there was no Bible. The Bible is the book of the Church; she is not the Church of the Bible. It was the Church--her leadership, faithful people--guided by the authority of the Spirit of Truth which discovered the books inspired by God in their writing. The Church did not create the canon; she discerned the canon.

Council of Rome (382)
Local church council under the authority of Pope Damasus, (366-384) gave a complete list of canonical books of the OT and NT which is identical with the list later approved by the Council of Trent.

Council of Hippo (393)
Local North African Church council in union with and under the authority of the Bishop of Rome approved a list of OT and NT canon (same as later approved by the Council of Trent)

Council of Carthage (397)
Local North African Church council in union with and under the authority of the Bishop of Rome approved a list of OT and NT canon (same as later approved by the Council of Trent)

74 posted on 10/21/2007 2:08:21 PM PDT by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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