divine and catholic faith (the only faith of Christians in the church the communion of saints) is revealed by God!
Unlike the traditions of men having no authority form Christ under king James deemed dan 13 and many books and chapters not scripture and men like luther (excommunicated) even wanted James Jude And revelation removed
so who decides
where did Jesus say what is the cannon of scripture?
Or that all revealed truths are in scripture
Even scripture points to the teaching authority of the apostles acts 2:42
ever the faith story of Susana in dan 13?
Yet the Lutheran Bible does contain the books of the Apocrypha, They just do not consider them scripture. And Yes i have read them, Tobit is one I particularly enjoyed. How come the Catholic Bible leaves out the Book of Enoch, which the Coptic Bibles contain? Or the Didache, and the other books in the Orthodox Apocrypha? Do You see what I am saying? The Canon of 66 Books contains all the essential doctrine of Christianity, these books though informative, and can add information do not alter the doctrine of the church, with the exception of certain (heretical) understandings such as purgatory. Many of these Books also alack divine inspiration.
The Holy Ghost is the one that preserves the Word of God through the ages, by using men who are led by the Holy Spirit. Men like St. Jerome, Wycliffe, Luther, Tyndale, and the translators of those texts. None of us who are "protestants" deny the validity of the early church fathers and what they did with the canon of Scripture, what we say is that the "One" church was corrupted, and as with Israel of Old, when one priesthood became corrupt, God raised up another priesthood whose heart is for the Truth and for God and not for earthly glory.
There are essentials of the faith that unify all Christians, You for example do not deny that Jesus is LORD, This is is an essential of the faith that unifies, But there are other man made doctrines that divide, that are none essentials (Purgatory, Calvinism, Eschatological differences), and these are in large part none essentials of the faith. Church membership is one of those non essentials. I Have brothers and sisters in the faith who are Calvinists and Arminians, Catholics and Lutherans, Fundamentalists and charismatics. We agree on the essentials and disagree on the non essentials, and that is ok by me, as long as they can say Jesus is the LORD. (1 Corinthians 12:3)
It is when one "church" starts to "beat up" on the others that that church becomes "nicolaitan" in their doctrine. This temptation is very real for the church. Fundamentalism fell into this at the turn of the 20th century, and From this was Born the Pentecostal movement. Jesus warned of this to the Apostles themselves (Matthew 20:25-28, Luke 12:42-48) You would do well to read these verses. The Catholic church, and the doctrines you are trying to foist upon the "menservants and maidens" are very much in line with this. It is this teaching which Jesus "hates" (Revelation 2:6, Revelation 2:15) This Got so Bad that Protestantism was born of it and before that The orthodox church. Yet the RCC keeps "returning to its own vomit" to use a biblical idiom.
I have recently been reading on the RCC persecution of the Moravians, this is the same sort of thing that the RCC does over and over again, and I am not defending the Protestants because they are guilty of this as well. This is what happens when men build earthly kingdoms in the name of religion, and then have to defend them because they are built upon the teachings of men rather than the word of God. This will not end until all of us who are Christians reach the fulness of Christ, and set aside those "winds of doctrine" of men (Ephesians 4:14). My Hope is that one day you will reach this point as well, and learn to speak the truth in love.
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