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To: Petrosius
All that the Council of Trent did was restate what was already the accepted canon of Scripture.

Nope. The NT and OT canon's were not defined for Roman Catholicism until Trent. History is clear on this.

67 posted on 07/23/2019 12:47:08 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone
Nope. The NT and OT canon's were not defined for Roman Catholicism until Trent. History is clear on this.

Stuck in the legalism of Protestantism, I am afraid that you do not understand the relationship between the Ordinary and Extraordinary Magisteria. The Ordinary Magisterium is the day to day universal teaching of the Church. This, by itself, is considered infallible. That Pope Damasus I and the African synods declared what was the canon of the Bible, and that this was accepted by everyone, was enough for this to be considered a part of the Ordinary Magisterium, and thus infallible. There was no need for an extraordinary declaration by a church council. This is true of much church teaching.

The definitions of the Extraordinary Magisterium, either by a ecumenical council or by a solemn proclamation by a pope, are only done when the ordinary teaching is called into doubt; hence these actions care called those of the Extraordinary Magisterium. Or are we to say that the Christian church only defined that Jesus was the uncreated Son of God at the Council of Nicea in the 4th century? The Western church universally accepted the list of books declared by Pope Damasus I, the African councils, and included in the authorized Vulgate edition, since the 4th century. And to use your words: History is clear on this.

74 posted on 07/23/2019 1:02:49 PM PDT by Petrosius
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