Subject: Sola Scriptura supported by bible? |
Bible Note: You wrote: "Parts and all of the apocrypha have been incuded. In fact the Old Testament that we now have is bigger than the original Jewish canon." The Protestant Old Testament is different in size than the Jewish Tanakh? And you neglect the fact that it was not Luther who took the Apocrypha out of the Bible (it was actually in the appendix of his translation, just like it was in the Vulgate), but rather the Council of Trent who declared dogmatically that they were canonical as a response to the Reformation. You are absolutely correct that the extent of the canon has varied over time, but the books of the Apocrypha were never universally considered to be canonical, while the books which both Protestants and Catholics agree upon were pretty much settled by the turn of the 6th century. You wrote: 'Here is a question for you; when did the "protestant" church ever officialy declare it's canon?' Good question! The Protestant churches were pretty much universal in their recognition of which books were canonical. We see in Chapter 1 of the Westminster Confession of Faith the 66 books listed as the Holy Scriptures. It is also found in Article 4 of the Belgic Confession, Article 7 of the Thirty-nine Articles, etc. "Again, my question was how do you or anybody else determine the authority to decide what is scripture?" The church of Jesus Christ RECOGNIZES what is Scripture. How do YOU determine that the RCC has the authority to determine what Scripture is? --Joe! |