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NASB | 1 Corinthians 3:15 If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 3:15 But if any person's work is burned up [by the test], he will suffer the loss [of his reward]; yet he himself will be saved, but only as [one who has barely escaped] through fire. [Job 23:10] |
Subject: Why do they prey for the deads salvation |
Bible Note: Hi, Colin... The 66 books of the bible we are familiar with were considered canonical. Protestantism didn't really change the attitude toward the Apocryphal books, they were generally viewed the same way by everyone. Three things marked a change for the Protestants: (1) the belief that sound doctrine could not be derived from any but the 66, and (2) the belief that everyone should and ought to study the bible for themselves, and (3) the invention of the printing press. With the printing press, inexpensive bibles became available. Every Protestants wanted a copy. They were all wanting to know what God had for them to believe. But 87 books was a lot heftier than the 66 in which they were really interested. So they started carrying around just the 66. (The first King James edition of the bible, however, included the Apocrypha.) It wasn't considered that the Apocryphal books were bad, per se. Just that they weren't any more inspired than other books written by mere men. However, the boom in the printing industry was a bane to Rome. Some of the practices (as has been noted in other posts) that brought a lot of money to Rome were at stake, and needed bolstering. Furthermore, Rome needed a basis by which to excommunicate those who were, in their eyes, heretics. The adoption of the Apocryphal books into the canon accomplished both things in one fell blow. At the time, I don't think it meant a great deal to the average lay-Catholic. In fact, the council of Trent was held between 1545 and 1663. It took so many sessions because they could barely get enough interest from the clergy to have what we would think of as a quorum. This makes me think they were having a hard time drumming up interest. Until this time, councils issued fairly short statements. This one was pretty voluminous since it had to conclusively deal with the canon issue, refute the five solas on which Protestantism was based, and re-institute few other Roman practices, nailing the lid to the heretics' coffins -- or, perhaps, hammering the necessary stakes into ground. (In the same period, the Jesuit order was founded to implement the objectives of Rome in the eradication of Protestantism.) It is interesting to read these documents. You can go to the Roman Catholic web site and read English copies of them. (Curiously, they seem to be the oldest set of documents kept in the archive, last time I looked.) If you are Protestant -- even Eastern Orthodox -- you can read the grounds on which you are officially anathematized by Rome. (I sure hope I never become anathematized by Pflugerville, Texas! That would be *really* scary!) I hope this little excursion into history helps. In Him, Doc |