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To: Heart-Rest

So what you are saying is those Catholic commenters are wrong who have been bashing Luther on the basis that only a pope or church council have the authority to alter the canon, never mind that Luther did no such thing.

And you said it was crazy to ask if a council could alter the canon. Perhaps you forgot the Apocrypha was never officially recognized until the Council of Trent.

I don’t have any questions about the catechism, so I won’t bother reading F.A.Q. I asked the question because I am curious how modern Catholics feel about it, particularly paragraph 841 pertaining to Muslims. I want to know if Catholics stand by the declaration that Muslims are included in the plan of salvation. I wonder if Catholic soldiers in Afghanistan have read that paragraph. And if they have what they understand it to mean.

841 The Church’s relationship with the Muslims. “The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.”


1,581 posted on 07/21/2013 3:26:02 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: .45 Long Colt; Heart-Rest; boatbums; CynicalBear; aMorePerfectUnion; Colofornian
Perhaps you forgot the Apocrypha was never officially recognized until the Council of Trent.

Now, what's this about a continuous, non-contradictory body of teaching?

So now non-Catholics are being condemned for adhering to the same OT canon as the Catholic church held to for about 1500 years until the Council of Trent?

I guess that answers the question of what would happen if the current pope decided to change the canon.

1,591 posted on 07/21/2013 4:42:56 PM PDT by metmom (rFor freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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