Roman Catholic: Hmm, guess I won't be joining. By the way y'all, there would be no bible without Catholics. Who do you think put the table of contents in there? Look it up folks!
Me: there would be no bible without Catholics.
All this time I thought God wrote the Bible.
Who do you think put the table of contents in there?
1) The people of God. Not Rome and not Roman Catholics.
2) Rome doesn't have a closed Old Testament Canon. See the book of 2 Esdras - the Council of Trent passed over that book in silence.
3) Rome doesn't have a canon of infallible teachings.
Rome is actually in a much worse position than Sola Scripturists on that question. MUCH worse.
RC:
The bible is a collection of books inspired by God and written by men. Catholics also hold the bible to be the inerrant word of God and the canon of the bible was established at the Council of Nicea in the 4th century. The OT consisted of the canon established by the Jews and would have been known by the Apostles. The NT canon needed to be established because there were many "gospels" at the time and some had to be excluded, such as the Gospel of Thomas, Peter, and numerous others. The Church Fathers met in a council to codify the canon of scripture until Martin Luther thought he knew better almost a thousand years later.
Me: Catholics also hold the bible to be the inerrant word of God
The RCC thinks that evolution is true. Thus your statement is false.
the canon of the bible was established at the Council of Nicea in the 4th century
That is untrue. Nicea did not deal with the canon at all. Show your evidence.
The OT consisted of the canon established by the Jews and would have been known by the Apostles
RCC claims to have apostolic succession. So is 2 Esdras canonical or not? Just answer the question.
The NT canon needed to be established because there were many "gospels" at the time and some had to be excluded, such as the Gospel of Thomas, Peter, and numerous others.
You're mistaken again. Those other "gospels" were written much later than the canonical Gospels.
The Church Fathers met in a council to codify the canon of scripture
No, they didn't. This is fiction.
until Martin Luther thought he knew better almost a thousand years later.
Pope Gregory the Great, Athanasius, and Cardinal Cajetan all held to DIFFERENT canons of the Old Testament than that which Rome affirmed at the Council of Trent.
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