To: Gamecock
“over” is NOT the proper question.
There was no Christian canon until the 4th century, so what was the authority prior to that point?
2 posted on
04/20/2014 12:53:28 PM PDT by
G Larry
(There's the Beef!)
To: G Larry
Not exactly correct.
Everyone had a pretty good idea of what the proper canon was. Only heresies inside the Roman Catholic faith group resulted in the confirmation of what was already accepted.
3 posted on
04/20/2014 12:56:09 PM PDT by
Gamecock
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To: G Larry
There was no Christian canon until the 4th century
That is not true that the Church had no apostolic writings, no books of the New Testament prior to the 4th century.
18 posted on
04/20/2014 2:22:58 PM PDT by
xzins
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To: G Larry
There was no Christian canon until the 4th century, so what was the authority prior to that point?Well; there WAS; it was just scattered all over the place.
62 posted on
04/21/2014 8:24:12 AM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: G Larry
Yes, and there are plenty of wonderful text discover as in “ the lost Scriptures” which were not included in the canon by the powers that were back then. The real answer is that the inner holy spirit is the ultimate authority and if we are true Christians, that is obvious. The Bible is not God, nor is any church.
152 posted on
04/22/2014 6:34:45 AM PDT by
fabian
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