Since they reject the authority of the Catholic Church who determined it.
2007-11-20 01:32:16 · 13 answers · asked by carl 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, who do you think determined what books that were around reallly were inspired?
Homer Simpson?
2007-11-20 01:39:13 · update #1
Protestants and catholics use the same New Testament books.
2007-11-20 01:41:15 · update #2
i know my God is able
the books the CC put in dont agree with the rest......
2007-11-20 01:34:45 · answer #1 · answered by jesussaves 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
in the view of the earliest christians,god spoke his word not only to but through his body, the church. it was within his body, the church, that the word was confirmed and established. without question, the scriptures were looked upon by early christians as god's active revelation of himself to the world. at the same time, the church was understood as the household of god,"having been build on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, jesus christ himself being the chief cornerstone,in whom the whole building,being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the lord"(ephesians 2:20, 21). god has his word , but he also has his body. the new testament says: (1) "now you are the body of christ, and members individually" (corinthians 12:27; compare romans 12:5). (2) "he [christ] is the head of the body, the church"(colossians 1:18). (3) "and he [the father] put all things under his [ the son's] feet, and gave him to be the head overall things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him wo fills all in all "( ephesians 1:22, 23). in early times there was no organic seperation between bible and church, as we so often find today. the body without the word is without message, but the word without the body is without foundation. as paul writes, the body is "the church of the living god, the pillar and ground of the truth" (1 timothy 3:15). the church is the living body of the incarnate lord. the apostle does not say that the new testament is the pillar and ground of the truth. the church is the pillar and foundation of the truth because the new testament was built upon her live in god. in short, she wrote it! she is an intergral part of the gospel message, and it is within the church that the new testament was written and preserved. the holy spirit within the church teaches us, and his teaching complements scripture.
2007-11-20 03:30:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uh, I'm confused by the answers above that think the canon was determined before there was a Catholic Church, since the Church starts with the apostle Peter. The Church was literally "catholic" and all offshoots have always admitted outright that they are forming a new branch of the religion and conceded that the Roman Catholic Church continues in the original line of doctrinal succession. basically, you're just making stuff up because it's convenient.
I'm embarrassed for you.
And for Wikipedia, which I thought was more popular than it apparently is.
2007-11-20 01:40:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
It sounds like you believe, hook, line and sinker, the lies told to you by your denomination. That is so sad.
The RCC as we know it did not get its start until the 9th century.
The New Testament was written 100% by Jewish men, except for Dr. Luke, who wrote the books of Luke and Acts.
Before the Apostles died out, the Jewish Apostles, communicated to the early Christians which books and letters should be treated as New Testament Scriptures.
By 115 AD the early church leaders where sending letters back and forth to each other and those letter contained the names of the books of the New Testament in the same sequence they appear today.
This was long before the founding of the Roman religion commonly known as the RCC today.
Of course once the RCC got organized, they re-wrote history in an effort to make themselves look good.
Much like the Atheist Americans who are today trying to re-write American history to claim that the founding fathers were Deists instead of Christians.
The facts are that amoung the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution, all of them were members of Christian Churches, except for four.
And only a couple of them were Roman Catholics.
How does asking a question like this help unify Christians?
Pastor Art
2007-11-20 02:10:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Simple... Protestants and Catholics are CHRISTIANS. So they follow the same Bible. Catholics didn't write the Bible. And the rejection was not over what goes in the New Testament as much as it was HOW TO INTERPRET it. And of course, the books that Protestants didn't believe in were removed.
2007-11-20 01:54:46 · answer #5 · answered by Proud Momma 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Protestants pick and choose what's in their New Testament, same as the Catholics picked and chose what would be in theirs. The Catholics just got a head start by doing it only a couple or three hundred years after Jesus was dead.
But all the choices amount to the same in the overall scheme of things where validity is at stake.
2007-11-20 01:39:39 · answer #6 · answered by Jack P 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
The self-authenticating, God-breathed Word contained in the Old and New Testaments is sufficient for faith and practice.
2007-11-20 01:53:38 · answer #7 · answered by Horton Heard You! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have both Protestant and Catholic Bibles.
They have the SAME books in the New Testament. The RC church has many apocryphal NT writings, but they do not include them as Bible canon.
The parts they include as extra scripture that Protestants do NOT have as Bible canon are in the OT or Old Testament such as the Macabees, Judith and others.
These were written long before Jesus' life and were extra books the Jews wrote before Christianity, Jesus or John the Baptist were on earth.
One way you know they are not divinely inspired is their inclusion of pagan legends/stories from other religions, they do not claim divine inspiration (the Macabees actually says he does not know if his writings came from God or not...then he praised himself for writing them anyway).
I can send you a list of more things to check if you want.
But overall, sounds like someone has no idea what is in the Catholic and Protestant NT copies.
Debbie
2007-11-20 01:41:57 · answer #8 · answered by debbiepittman 7 · 0⤊ 6⤋
the Catholic church did not determine the canon of the New Testament; it was agreed on well before the Catholic church was established (3rd century)
2007-11-20 01:34:55 · answer #9 · answered by Cuchulain 6 · 2⤊ 5⤋
They had thier own conference, martin luther put some of the books in the appendix, then they were removed all together.
2007-11-20 01:34:46 · answer #10 · answered by ryan c 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Authority is an important question. Deciding things by council seems a bit scary to me.
2007-11-20 01:36:42 · answer #11 · answered by Mike B 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋