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It was by The Decree of Pope St. Damasus I, Council of Rome. 382 A.D....

The list of 46 Old Testament and 27 New Testament books was confirmed in the Council of Carthage in 397 A.D.. St. Jerome's translation, "The Latin Vulgate"*, is to this day, the official Bible of the Catholic Church. The Bibles which Catholics use today, have the same 46 books in the Old Testament as they have had since before the beginning of Christianity.

2007-11-25 13:53:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The Fourth Council of Carthage in 419 again reaffirmed the Canons as defined in previous councils...

CANON XXIV. (Greek xxvii.)
"That nothing be read in church besides the Canonical Scripture.
ITEM, that besides the Canonical Scriptures nothing be read in church under the name of divine Scripture. But the Canonical Scriptures are as follows: * Genesis * Exodus * Leviticus * Numbers * Deuteronomy * Joshua the Son of Nun * The Judges * Ruth * The Kings (4 books) * The Chronicles (2 books) * Job * The Psalter * The Five books of Solomon (includes Wisdom and Sirach) * The Twelve Books of the Prophets * Isaiah * Jeremiah * Ezechiel * Daniel * Tobit * Judith * Esther * Ezra (2 books) * Maccabees (2books).
The New Testament: * The Gospels (4 books) * The Acts of the Apostles (1 book) * The Epistles of Paul (14) * The Epistles of Peter, the Apostle (2) * The Epistles of John the Apostle (3) * The Epistles of James the Apostle (1) * The Epistle of Jude the Apostle (1) * The Revelation of John (1 book).
Let this be sent to our brother and fellow bishop, [Pope] Boniface, and to the other bishops of those parts, that they may confirm this canon, for these are the things which we have received from our fathers to be read in church."
[This is Canon xxxvj. of Hippo., 393. The last phrase allowing the reading of the "passions of the Martyrs" on their Anniversaries is omitted from the African code.]

In Christ
Fr. Joseph

2007-11-25 22:09:58 · answer #2 · answered by cristoiglesia 7 · 0 0

The canon was finalized at the Council of Nicea in 325. The council was called by the Roman Emperor Constine. Those involved were all the bishops who could get there.

2007-11-25 21:49:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

325-326 AD Constantine

2007-11-25 21:47:16 · answer #4 · answered by Lance B 1 · 1 2

Depend which law, what we know as Christianity has a long evolution in creating the ORTHODOXY...here are a few highlights...

190 CE Christian council to determine "official" date of Easter

250CE Origen, Church Historian (185-254) claims few Christians died from Roman persecutions "and only from time to time, and at intervals". He himself was imprisioned.

325CE Council of Nice: Promotion of the Goodman, Christ is Divine

you said BIBLE, so here is the info
363CE Council of Laodicea names 26 New Testament books as "inspired word of God"; Book of Revelation is excluded. It would take another 25 yrs for Revelations to be added to the list. Actually, the Council of Laodicea only essentially ‘approved’ Bishop Eusebius ‘recommended reading list’; Eusebius, that great Church propagandist and self-confessed “liar-for-god”.

364CE Council of Laodicea ordered that religious observances were to be conducted on Sunday, not Saturday.

366CE Damasus I makes it heresy to question nature of Christ and other doctrinal points as decreed at Nice.

380CE Theodosius reinforces Damasus I's decree and makes it illegal for believers to question church doctrine.

One should NOTE that the only punishment for heresy, which originally meant free thinking, was DEATH.

381CE First Council of Constantinople drew up a dogmatic statement on the Trinity and defined Holy Spirit as having the same divinity expressed for the Son by the Council of Nice 56 years earlier.

383CE Jerome presented Pope Damasus I with new Latin gospels. When the Bishops of the time asked for the Originals, since they were claiming ERRORS with the text, Jerome claimed the "originals were lost".

394 AD Council of Carthage - first council to uphold doctrines of prayers for the dead and purgatory.

418CE African Bishop Alypius offers bribe of 80 Namibian stallions for church to accept Augustine's doctrine of original sin into its teachings. Augustine’s doctrine of original sin is accepted along with his teaching that anyone who does not choose to follow Christ is damned for all eternity.

451 AD Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon voted that Christ is simultaneously "truly man and truly God." A little known statement of the Council was Canon #15 (1): No woman under 40 years of age is to be ordained a deacon, and then only after close scrutiny. If one looks at the duties of a deacon at the time, they would preform weddings, baptisms, preside over funerals, about the only thing they couldn't do was bless or 'transmodify' the sacrements of communion--'spiritually' changing the bread and wine into the literal blood and flesh of 'jesus'---yummy RITUALISTIC cannibalism.

The decree set forth in the year 1229 A.D. by the Council of Valencia places the Bible on The Index of Forbidden Books. The doctrine withholds "it is forbidden for laymen (common man) to read the Old and New Testaments.

There are literally HUNDREDS if not thousands of other councils and edicts put forth over the last couple of centuries, alot of them involving further 'discussion' or 'elaboration' of other edicts or the repelling of edicts.

Like in the 9th century the church deemed that 'witches' don't fly, but during the Inquistion they were said they could. Ohh, another good one was when the church banned cats--since they were the 'shapeshifted" form of witches and demons...2 years later the Plague hit Europe, no cats, the rat population grew so did disease.

2007-11-25 22:03:06 · answer #5 · answered by Lion Jester 5 · 0 1

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