How did the cannon of scripture come to pass.?

Question

There is a difference of how scripture was cannonized in the Catholic Church and Protestant Churcha. What was the difference and how did it come to pass

Answer 1

No, there is not a difference. Scripture was canonized once and for all time by the bishops of the Catholic Church, gathered in Council at Carthage, North Africa, in 397 A.D. Their Canon of 73 divinely inspired texts is THE Canon of Scripture. Protestants did not create a different Canon. The founder of Protestantism simply decided that he was going to throw out 10 books of God's holy Word that did not conform to his new doctrinal ideas. Targeted for the trash were 7 Old Testament books and 3 New Testament books. However, fortunately his followers would not hear of trashing the writings of the Apostles themselves, and were on the verge of rebellion. So Luther backed down and left the New Testament intact. But he still threw out the 7 Old Testament books he had intended to discard.

It's interesting that Protestants claim 66 inspired books rather than the original 73, based on nothing more than the word of this one renegade Catholic priest. Yet, if he had his way, they would have only 63 books of the Holy Bible, and they would claim, again based on nothing more than the word of Luther, that those 63 books and nothing more were the Word of God. And yet, the 66 books they do accept, they accept on the infammilbe word of the Catholic Church which alone defined the Canon of Scripture.

Really, you can't have it both ways. Either the Catholic Church accurately and infallibly defined the Canon of Scripture - in which case we know with certainty which 73 texts are divinely inspired; or, the Catholic Church tried to define the Canon of Scripture, but made 7 (or 10, if you believe Luther) mistakes, in which case there is really no way of knowing with certainty that any biblical texts are divinely inspired. If the Catholic Church was mistaken on 10% of their selections, then probably they made other mistakes too, so every book of the Bible is suspect.

Answer 2

Yup...he's right!