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The first canon was affirmed by the Council of Rome (AD 382) Pope Damasus I.
Most of that is ok with protestants except for a few intertestamental books known as the Apocrypha.
So we can we attribute this selection of books by Catholics as guided by the Holy Spirit. We all agree they are divinely inspired.
This is where I don't get Sola Sctiptura that posits the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christians.
The Bible itself is a product of tradition and Church authority.
Anglicanism, Methodism and Pentecostalism uphold the doctrine of prima scripture with scripture being illumined by tradition and reason.
The Eastern Orthodox Church holds that to "accept the books of the canon is also to accept the ongoing Spirit-led authority of the church's tradition, which recognizes, interprets, worships, and corrects itself by the witness of Holy Scripture".
The Catholic officially regards tradition and scripture as equal, forming a single deposit, and considers the magisterium as the living organ which interprets said deposit
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Most of that is ok with protestants except for a few intertestamental books known as the Apocrypha.
So we can we attribute this selection of books by Catholics as guided by the Holy Spirit. We all agree they are divinely inspired.
This is where I don't get Sola Sctiptura that posits the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christians.
The Bible itself is a product of tradition and Church authority.
Anglicanism, Methodism and Pentecostalism uphold the doctrine of prima scripture with scripture being illumined by tradition and reason.
The Eastern Orthodox Church holds that to "accept the books of the canon is also to accept the ongoing Spirit-led authority of the church's tradition, which recognizes, interprets, worships, and corrects itself by the witness of Holy Scripture".
The Catholic officially regards tradition and scripture as equal, forming a single deposit, and considers the magisterium as the living organ which interprets said deposit
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