Is the canon;
1. An authoritative list of biblical books
2. A list of authoritative biblical books
Gods word doesn't become authoritative because your church sat down at trent and voted them in. They are authoritative because they are Gods word. And B.F. Westscott ripped your prelates at trent a new one due to the utter lack of education on their part to even determine what was canonical or not. They are the ones that elevated your extra 7 books to the level of inspired scripture.
Time for a
history lesson . . .
Ummmmmm,
Trent was
NOT where the Canon of Scripture was
declared. It is where is was officially
CLOSED.
- The
Synod of Rome (382) is where the canon was first formally identified.
- It was confirmed at the
Synod of Hippo eleven years later
(393).
- At the
Council (or Synod) of Carthage (397), it was yet again confirmed. The bishops wrote at the end of their document,
"But let Church beyond sea (Rome) be consulted about confirming this canon". There were
44 bishops, including St.
Augustine who signed the document.
-
7 years later, in
405, in a letter from
Pope Innocent I to Exsuperius, Bishop of Toulouse, he
reiterated the canon.
- 14 years after that, at the
2nd Council (Synod) of Carthage (419) the canon was again formally confirmed.
The Canon of Scripture was
officially closed at the council of Trent in the 16th century because of the
perversions happening within
Protestantism and the random
editing and
deleting of books from the Canon.
As for the
Seven Deuterocanonical Books that your Protestant Fathers
REMOVED – here is how that happened:
About
40 years after Jesus died and rose from the dead, Jerusalem was
destroyed by the
Romans. The
Temple was desecrated and completely
destroyed. Jesus
foretold that this was going to happen in
Mark 13: 1‐4. Not long
after this, a group of
Rabbis asked permission from the Roman authorities to hold a
Rabbinical school at
Jabneh (or Jamnia). One of the things discussed was use of the
Greek translation of the Old Testament (the
Septuagint) by early Christians. The name,
"Septuagint", comes from the number of scholars
(70) who translated the Hebrew texts into Greek.
At
this gathering, they decided to
eject 7 Books (and portions of
Esther and
Daniel) that they felt were uninspired. They provided a
new Greek translation because the early
Christians were converting the
Jews using the Septuagint, which was compiled about
200 years
before the birth of Christ. According to historical sources, the rabbinical gathering at Jabneh was
not even an
"official" council with binding authority to make such a decision.
It can be
clearly shown that
Jesus and the Apostles studied and quoted from these 7 Books. In the
New Testament, we see over
150 references to them. The
main advocate for removing the 7 Deuterocanonical Books was
Rabbi Akiva, who was
also known for proclaiming that a man named
Simon Bar Kohkba was the
“real” Messiah during the
2nd Jewish revolt (circa
132 AD).
So – instead of usi9ng the
SAME OT that
Christ and the Apostles studied from –
YOU and the rest of Protestantism hold to a
POST-Christ, POST-Temple canon that was declared by a
FALSE Prophet (Akiva) who declared a
FALSE Christ (Simon Bar Kohkba).
Good job . . .
At the
Last Supper – Jesus promised the
leaders of His Church that the
Holy Spirit would guide them to
ALL TRUTH.
Over
300 years late, their successors
WERE led by the Holy Spirit to the truth of
Scripture.
This was
not a decision that came from the Church
WIOTHOUT the guidance of the
Holy Spirit.