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To: ebb tide
Who finally did decide which books were inspired and therefore belonged to the New Testament? Shortly before 400 A. D. a General Council of the Catholic Church, using the infallible authority which Christ had given to His own divine institution, finally decided which books really belonged to the New Testament and which did not. .

Either the Church at this General Council was infallible, or it was not. If the Church was infallible then, why is it not infallible now? If the Church was not infallible then, in that case the New Testament is not worth the paper it is written on, because internal evidences of authenticity and inspiration are inconclusive and because the work of this Council cannot now be rechecked; this is obvious from reply to next question. .

COMMENT: In view of these historical facts, it is difficult to see how non-Catholics can deny that it was from the (Roman) Catholic Church that they received the New Testament.

This is a long time canard of the RCC. There was broad agreement on which books were inspired before the Catholic church made it "official". The idea that nobody knew which books should be canonical before the Roman Catholic church figured that out is absurd.
9 posted on 09/11/2023 9:33:22 AM PDT by lasereye
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To: lasereye
There was broad agreement on which books were inspired before the Catholic church made it "official".

Ok. Tell me who were those "protesants" before 400 A.D. who agreed with the Catholic church.

14 posted on 09/11/2023 9:37:46 AM PDT by ebb tide (The pope ... said the church's “catechesis on sex is still in diapers.”)
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