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To: pgyanke; odawg
True. The Church wrote and canonized New Testament Scripture.

Do you know when Rome actually "canonized" the new testament?

Did you know that the Early church fathers did not agree on the canon?

74 posted on 05/16/2015 12:07:24 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: RnMomof7

“True. The Church wrote and canonized New Testament Scripture.’

No, the “church” did not write the New Testament. The New Testament was written by Christians, members, of the church, although at the time it was called an assembly. The New Testament records no church hierarchy with centralized authority, except in Jerusalem, for a short time. The canonization was done by men who had an allegiance to the apostolic written accounts, not a church. For example, the Catholic church had Ronald Knox create a translation of the Bible for Catholics but the Catholic church did not look over his shoulder while he was translating. He did use the Vulgate, though. The man was brilliant (if a bit too wordy) and I refer to on occasion.


79 posted on 05/16/2015 12:47:16 PM PDT by odawg
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To: RnMomof7

Did you know that the early Church fathers were Catholic,
or where they methodist or scientologist? LOL.


86 posted on 05/16/2015 3:50:26 PM PDT by NKP_Vet ("All the evils in the world are due to lukewarm Catholics" ~ Pope Pius V)
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