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To: RegulatorCountry
You clearly did not read the links provided for you by Mr. Rogers regarding the ongoing controversy, right up to and beyond the Council Of Trent, regarding the canonicity of the Deuterocanonical books of the Bible. It was not merely a Protestant-Catholic issue, it was and actually is an internal matter within Catholicism.

Can you explain why you fail to grasp this?

Give his links a closer reading. The authorities cited are commenting on comments made surrounding the Council. Comments surrounding the Council are historic and valuable, but have no binding teaching authority.

I cited the primary text, the actual text of the Council of Trent, which is unambiguous regarding the Canon of Scripture. It is this text which the Church regards as infallible teaching.

But all of this begs the question, What authority did Luther have to determine the canon of Scripture? Can his canon be disputed? And if so, how can "the Bible alone" be the "sole rule of faith," if the canon of Scripture is controvertible?

101 posted on 01/23/2011 10:32:21 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas; RegulatorCountry

” I cited the primary text, the actual text of the Council of Trent, which is unambiguous regarding the Canon of Scripture. It is this text which the Church regards as infallible teaching.”

The decision at Trent was what books were included. They refused to discuss if those books had equal value, or if some were only good for reading but not for doctrine. The Council of Trent punted.

And since ALL scripture “is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting...”, it effectively leaves open the question of the actual scriptural status of the Apocrypha. Because if it cannot be used for teaching, rebuking and correction, it isn’t scripture.

“But all of this begs the question, What authority did Luther have to determine the canon of Scripture? Can his canon be disputed? And if so, how can “the Bible alone” be the “sole rule of faith,” if the canon of Scripture is controvertible?”

Luther cannot determine the canon of scripture. The Holy Spirit owns scripture, and it is up to us to follow Him to the best of our ability.

“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me...When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you...”

I have never met a Protestant who thought Luther was infallible. The scriptures belong, not to the Catholic Church, not to the Pope, and not to Luther, but to God.


155 posted on 01/23/2011 12:20:26 PM PST by Mr Rogers (Poor history is better than good fiction, and anything with lots of horses is better still)
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