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To: Kolokotronis; wmfights
The 3rd Council of Carthage was a local, North African council and thus could not proclaim anything dogmatically for the One Church. As you know, Revelations wasn't included in the East until the 9th century

Yes, I mentioned that in another post on this thread. It is a good reminder for the lukers however, to remind them all that local councils are not binding for the whole Church and that, as you mention, in Constantinople the Book of Revelation was listed as "questiobable" until the 9th century.

I was simply stating that the Church, locally, did not even try to define canon until the end of the 4th century and that the Third Council of Carthage is the first such event.

The second one was, as you mentioned earlier, at Trent in the 16th century, but that was binding only to the Latin Church.

4,132 posted on 03/16/2008 4:53:52 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; Kolokotronis
It is a good reminder for the lukers however, to remind them all that local councils are not binding for the whole Church and that, as you mention, in Constantinople the Book of Revelation was listed as "questiobable" until the 9th century.

It was only a technical point I was bringing up. It is so often claimed "The Church" gave us the Scriptures implying it was solely at the direction of the Church in Rome. It is really not the case. Technically, "The Church" did compile the canon, but "The Church" was not a centralized hierarchy at that point.

Having read Revelation several times now and being as confused now as I was the first time I understand the hesitancy to include it.

4,138 posted on 03/16/2008 6:05:35 PM PDT by wmfights (Believe - THE GOSPEL - and be saved)
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