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To: MarkBsnr; Kolokotronis; Forest Keeper; HarleyD; blue-duncan; Dr. Eckleburg; 1000 silverlings; ...
So the Council of Hippo, followed by Carthage, Trent and a second Carthage (over which Augustine presided) weren’t binding?

Technically no. You folks seem to make a technicality out of everything so I would assume you would appreciate the irony of it. As it has been stated numerous times there have only been seven ecumenical councils involving all of the Roman and Eastern Orthodox churches. None of these dealt with the canon of Scripture. I believe in large part because it was largely understood what it was.

For example Jerome had started his translation prior to the Synod of Hippo. If it was not well established how would he have known which books to translate?

The western church headquartered in Rome seems to make a habit of overstating it's role in things. I'm sure it has been successful in it's claims in the past because it had a near monopoly on speech and the power of the state to back it. All these claims have been revealed for what they are with the freedom to read Scripture individually and to discuss openly thoughts about what they reveal and what the historical record shows.

4,401 posted on 03/21/2008 11:38:34 AM PDT by wmfights (Believe - THE GOSPEL - and be saved)
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Technically no. You folks seem to make a technicality out of everything so I would assume you would appreciate the irony of it. As it has been stated numerous times there have only been seven ecumenical councils involving all of the Roman and Eastern Orthodox churches. None of these dealt with the canon of Scripture. I believe in large part because it was largely understood what it was.

Amen.

4,407 posted on 03/21/2008 2:41:48 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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there have only been seven ecumenical councils involving all of the Roman and Eastern Orthodox churches. None of these dealt with the canon of Scripture.

That is absolutely, one hundred percent correct, wmfights. The Eastern Church did not include the Book of Revelation into the canon until the end of the 9th century. Until that time, it was listed as "questionable" in the Church of Constantinople.

However, save for this one book, which the Orthodox to this day do not read publicly in church (which would technically make is non-canonical), all the New Testament books of the Third Council of Carthage are accepted universally as the Christian canon by all Christians to this day.

This agreement is not a legal obligation, as it would have been if the Bible had been canonized by an ecumenical council, and you make that point perfectly.

4,410 posted on 03/21/2008 6:28:55 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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