> > From: > Adam Maas > John Sessoms wrote: >>> From: >>> frank theriault On 1/3/07, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Just one side point... neither purgatory or a burning hell are >>>> taught by the >>>> Bible. So yes a strange, in fact, false logic.<snip> >>> Indeed! >>> >>> The concept of purgatory is Roman Catholic dogma (perhaps other >>> Christian sects believe in it, I don't know). What has Catholicism >>> ever had to do with the Bible? >>> >>> cheers, >>> frank, recovering catholic >> >> Wasn't it a bunch of Roman Catholic priests who decided what would >> be in and what would not be in the Bible? >> > > Pretty much, for the New Testament at least. St Jerome was the guy who > put it together and it was approved initially in 392AD and finally in > 397AD at a pair of Church Councils.
Ok, for some reason I thought there was a later council, sometime around 1200 AD that re-edited the Roman Catholic Church's Bible and removed a bunch of "gospels" and other apocryphal books. I understood there wasn't really an "official" Bible until then, and the council had something to do with a scism and power struggle within the church. By declaring parts that had previously been included to no longer be a part of the Bible, the winners of this struggle undermined the teachings of their opponents. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
