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My reaction too. It was a no-brainer, though. Of course someone had to write the books of the New Testament, and of course someone had to choose which ones went into the Canon. The Holy Spirit didn't dictate the Scriptures, nor the list of the Canon, but they reasoned, prayed, and allowed the Holy Spirit to work through them to do so.

The other thing to note is that the Jews didn't have a set Canon, despite what Protestants want to believe. The Sadducees only had the Pentateuch, the Pharisees had the Torah (which I think is smaller than our Canon), and IIRC the Essenes had a much larger Canon (possibly all that was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls). The Church had to determine for Herself what was to go into the Church's Canon.

JB Hodl 2y ago

Interesting I didn’t know the Jewish part.

This all, for me, destroyed solo scriptura.

If the Church birthed the scriptures, then it can’t be solo scriptura. In fact the word is in some ways secondary. The Word became flesh. The very presence of God, now sacramental, is the fount of the Church. The Eucharist is the “source and summit” as JP the Great stated.

So knowing the writers of the New Testament were either priests consecrating at mass or at least attending mass, it makes you look

at John 6, and all the other Eucharistic passages, in a much clearer light.

The Church is Christs continued presence on earth, the Incarnation continued in a way.

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James A Lewis 2y ago

This is another reason I don't like calling Holy Scripture the 'Word of God' in that exact phraseology. Holy Scripture doesn't call itself the Word of God. Rather, it says the Son is the Word, and the Word became Flesh. The Holy Scriptures written by the Church are witness to the Author and Perfecter of the Faith, the Source and Summit of our Faith, the Word made Flesh, Jesus Christ Himself.

We do worship the Word, which was with God, was God, and became flesh. We however do not worship Scripture, the witness of the Word.

JB Hodl 2y ago

Amen! We worship Christ, God the Son present physically, truly and sacramentally at the Mass. We are not a religion of “the book”. Christ and His Church come first. Scripture AND tradition. 🙏🏽

Sweet 2y ago

The Church didn’t birth the Scriptures.

Vatican I, one of your own ecumenical councils, explicitly rejects this idea.

Roman Catholics are so desperate that they slander their own religion just to lead more people to Satan ☠️