[Mrs. Don-o]

"Except, regarding the "Deposit of Doctrine", this has changed numerous times over the centuries....and Rome's own documents attest to that....and if Roman Catholics would objectively evaluate their denomination's history they'd see this."

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You keep belaboring something nobody's arguing with you about.

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Doctrine legitimately changes in the sense of development. Trinity. Incarnation. Eggs develop into chickens. We already went over that.

Doctrine can also face negative changes which can be corruption or internal incoherence or de-development or imaginative leaps or loss. For instance the

• competing, incompatible forms of Christian chiliasm
  • Historicism,
  • Futurism,
  • Preterism,
  • Idealism,
  • Dispensationalism,
  • Amillennialism,
  • Postmillennialism,
  • Premillennialism,
  • Prewrath Rapture,
  • Posttribulation Rapture,
  • Dispensationalism
• Five Solas (not found in the Bible) including
  • "Faith Alone" (found in the Bible here: "Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only." James 2:24 KJV),
• British Israelism,
• Oneness Pentecostalism,
• Prosperity Gospel,
• Christian Torah-ism,
• Anabaptism,
• Emerging Church movement,
• Seeker-Friendly Church,
• Gay Christian movement,
• Stone-Campbell movement,
• Fundamentalism
  • churches with one Sacrament,
  • Two Sacraments,
  • No Sacraments,
  • Two ordinances
  • No ordinances
  • having female pastors,
  • having female ministers but not pastors,
  • having female elders or deacons but not ministers or pastors
  • infant baptism,
  • adolescent baptism,
  • adult baptism,
  • Baptism of the Spirit,
  • baptism optional
  • and on and on.

"But Scripture doesn't change!"

... he says.

Yeah.

Explain to me why you only have 66 books instead of 73.

[Luircin]

Because the Catholics only had 66 books until Trent?

Actually, it’s more like the Catholics had NO canon until Trent and the 66 ‘Protestant’ books were everything that was commonly accepted among a significant subset of Catholics. Then Rome chose the other canon list for... reasons.

I won’t list the possible reasons because it would prolly come off as overly confrontational.

But the short version is that the Reformers didn’t take books out of the canon because there WAS no official canon until after Trent.