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To: RnMomof7
There was no "closed" Catholic canon until AFTER the reformation

The New Testament was finalized for Catholics and Eastern Orthodox in the Forth Century by St. Athanasios. Luther deleted the Epistle of James from the "Protestant canon" but Protestants quietly put it back a couple centuries later.

29 posted on 05/04/2011 2:25:12 PM PDT by mas cerveza por favor
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To: mas cerveza por favor

Nope.. there was no OFFICIAL canon until Trent..

Luther did not remove james from the canon .... Even up to the late 4th century, the book of James had not even been quoted in the west. Luther was not the only one that questioned it as inspired. but he never remove it

.Rome added to the OT at Trent..something they had NO AUTHORITY to do..

The OT belongs to the jews ... not Rome

The books Rome added

1) are not Christocentric and they do not claim for themselves what Rome claims for them
2) They were accepted as inspired by the jewish people to whom God entrusted them and with whom they originated
3) The jews reject them as part of their canon
4) They contain teachings that are inconsistent with the rest of the Bible and often contradict themselves
5)Not one of them is in the Hebrew language, which is the language of the OT
6)They were not placed with the sacred books, during the first four centuries of the church

BTW Athanasios rejecter the North African provincial councils which added the books FOR LOCAL use..


32 posted on 05/04/2011 4:57:52 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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