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To: Luircin
I will hold my tongue on what I think of this ‘reaffirming’ considering what the Catholic scholars were saying about the canon of Scripture before Trent.

That's probably a good idea.

Ecumenical Council of Florence
Session 11
4 February 1442

Most firmly it believes, professes and preaches that the one true God, Father, Son and holy Spirit, is the creator of all things that are, visible and invisible, who, when he willed it, made from his own goodness all creatures, both spiritual and corporeal, good indeed because they are made by the supreme good, but mutable because they are made from nothing, and it asserts that there is no nature of evil because every nature, in so far as it is a nature, is good. It professes that one and the same God is the author of the old and the new Testament — that is, the law and the prophets, and the gospel — since the saints of both testaments spoke under the inspiration of the same Spirit. It accepts and venerates their books, whose titles are as follows.

Five books of Moses, namely Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy; Joshua, Judges, Ruth, four books of Kings, two of Paralipomenon, Esdras, Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, Esther, Job, Psalms of David, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Baruch, Ezechiel, Daniel; the twelve minor prophets, namely Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi; two books of the Maccabees; the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; fourteen letters of Paul, to the Romans, two to the Corinthians, to the Galatians, to the Ephesians, to the Philippians, two to the Thessalonians, to the Colossians, two to Timothy, to Titus, to Philemon, to the Hebrews; two letters of Peter, three of John, one of James, one of Jude; Acts of the Apostles; Apocalypse of John.

96 posted on 08/11/2018 8:33:08 PM PDT by Al Hitan
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To: Al Hitan

Yes, I’m aware.

But I am aware of other things as well, such as how, once again, Catholic scholars were allowed to question canonical books all the way into the 1500s.

Until they needed a reason to bash those nasty Lutherans that is.

Much like how some Caths on this board NEVER quote Scripture unless it’s to bash those nasty Christians.


97 posted on 08/11/2018 8:54:07 PM PDT by Luircin
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