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To: stfassisi

Well, since you consider all Christians to be Catholic, then by YOUR definition, there are no early Christians who were not Catholic.

However, multiple canons were proposed from about 150 AD on, with 22 NT books having almost universal acceptance, and 5 being ‘maybe/maybe not’. As those 5 gained a wider audience, more churches accepted them, and shortly before 400 AD, a regional council adopted 27 books as NT canon. However, several other regions didn’t accept all 27 until much later.

See the table here: http://www.bible-researcher.com/canon5.html

A central tenant of Roman Catholicism is the primacy of the Bishop of Rome, and his authority to set doctrine. That wasn’t established in 400 AD, and when those claims arose later, it drove a variety of regions away from Rome - or, perhaps, split Rome away from them.


11 posted on 07/23/2009 7:19:21 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (I loathe the ground he slithers on!)
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To: Mr Rogers
Nice try,dear friend

The link uses early Christians who were Catholic that believed in the Sacraments.

I asked you to give writings from early Christian non catholic sources that show complete Bible canon.

All you give are opinions

12 posted on 07/23/2009 7:29:38 AM PDT by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
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