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To: boatbums

The same could be said for James, 2,3 John, Hebrews, and Revelation, so what’s your point?

Some rejected Esther, so should you throw Esther out of your Bible because of that?

No Church council upheld the private opinions of these Church fathers the Qunisext Council definitively settled the issue of the scriptural canon as far as the Eastern Church was concerned.

Some early writers thought that sins couldn’t be forgiven after baptism either.

And these same fathers were hardly consistent with the disputed Old Testament books either, considering that many cited them as scripture when it suited them.
http://www.cin.org/users/jgallegos/deutero.htm

Will you start treating Revelation and Hebrews as apocryphal considering that many of these same writers thought they were apocryphal? I doubt it.

The Church overruled them on a universal level. Certain local theologians had their opinions on a local level, but it is a stretch to say that the “Catholic Church” ever defined against the disputed books. It takes a council to do that.


176 posted on 01/09/2012 11:00:32 PM PST by rzman21
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To: rzman21

And some held sexual relations even in marriage necessarily involved sinful lust: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2827010/posts?page=400#400


178 posted on 01/10/2012 5:56:21 AM PST by daniel1212 (Our sinful deeds condemn us, but Christ's death and resurrection gains salvation. Repent +Believe)
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