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Indeed, for example, St. James Alpheus, Bishop of Jerusalem, whose epistle is in the New Testament.
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We do know that they were believers after His resurrection.
Actually, the canon of scripture in other branches of Christianity which are centuries older than the Protestant churches do not have your 73 books. Some, such as the Coptic Church have a lot more and some have less. The fact that your branch waited until its Council at Trent to determine is 73-book canon makes it really quite late in the scheme of things.
Actually, fact check: the Eastern Orthodox and Coptic Orthodox church have the same canon, and that canon is also recognized by the Syriac Orthodox and the Assyrian Church of the East, at present. It is slightly larger than the Byzantine canon, featuring Psalm 151 and a few other bits. In the past, the Assyrian church probably accepted a smaller canon, because East Syriac copies of the Peshitta only have a subset of the 27 books in the Athanasian canon.. The Armenian canon adds one book, 3 Corinthians.
You were thinking of the Ethiopian Tewahedo Orthodox Church, and the Eritrean Tewahedo Orthodox Church, because some people erroneously call these two churches Coptic even today, because the Ethiopian or Abyssian church was an Autonomous church under the Omophorion of the Coptic Orthodox Pope of Alexandria, with its bishops appointed by the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church, until the Ethiopian church was granted autocephaly in 1959. His Holiness Abune Matthias is the sixth Patriarch of Ethiopia. In 1994, the Coptic church granted autocephaly to the portion of the Ethiopian church in Eritrea after that country won a war of independence, and became the Eritrean Tewahedo Orthodox Church.
These two churches feature two canons of scripture, a Broad Canon and a Narrow Canon, which differ in that the Broad Canon includes the Didascalia and other additional books in the New Testament. The Narrow Canon features a large number of additional books in the Old Testament (the Broad Canon features these also, plus one more Old Testament book). The most noteworthy items in the Ethiopian canon in my opinion are 1 Enoch, which was of course quoted by St. Jude in his epistle, and Jubilees.
To my knowledge, there are no presently extant churches other than the Protestant churches which have a smaller OT or NT canon than the Roman Catholic canon. Additionally, the Anglicans accept most of the Deuterocanonical Books* as they read them in Morning Prayer and Evensong; they are included in the Apocrypha section of any complete King James Version (sadly, nearly all KJVs printed since around 1800 lack the Apocrypha for cost saving purposes). I also came across a post while perusing old threads in Traditional Theology, written by my friend @MarkRohfrietsch in which he stated Lutheranism has an open canon, if I read it right, and Mark is The Man when it comes to Lutheran theological chops.
It is starting to look less likely I will be able to make it to Canada in October by the way Mark - what time does the fall foliage come down? Right now its looking like at least three weeks before I can get out of here. But the Christmas season might be nice; it occurred to me the Canadian might be a lot of fun in December if they have the Park Cars opened up. I need to check the VIA Rail website...
betrothed, coming together, all parts of the wedding ceremony. I believe this is why you do not understand the passage you quoted.What does that have to do with anything? Where does it mention their wedding ceremony?
Trees are starting to turn now in Ontario; we had frost just north of us last week; which is not early. Despite the colder air, I am going fishing for a week just after our thanksgiving and expect about 1/2 the trees to be bare by then, and hope to be in Bavaria in Early December for equipment approval for my new line at work. With Church, extra services through Advent and Christmas. I know how things get busy.
Interesting to note, in our stand alone edition of the Apocrypha, there are "extra books" included, and as explained in the notes, prior to Trent there was no set Canon, and various Bibles in use included a variety of books, some of which are not in the Roman Canon. If you don't have this book, you should!
https://www.cph.org/pdf/012065.pdf
So it sounds like the best time to go to Canada for fall foliage is the first week of October? Also, would you expect snow along the route of the Canadian, which goes from Toronto through Northern Ontario and across the Prairie Provinces to Vancouver, in December? Or would a train to the Atlantic provinces offer a better bet? There is also a service which runs
I just ordered it!
From November on, there is always a chance of snow, We and the maritime provinces can get more because for us, we are in the middle of the great lakes, and the Maritimes are on the Atlantic cost. Central Ontario through Manitoba, think Minnesota. Saskatchewan west, think North Dakota and Montana. Vancouver, think washington; southern ontario, think Northern New York.
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Interesting: Pastor just told me today that there is a new, updated and annotated NRSV coming out shortly that references recent scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls in it's notes. He is excited to get a copy.
You would have a chance to see snow through Ontario, but generally the fall foliage comes before significant snowfall. Now once you get to higher elevations through the mountains you should see snow.So it sounds like the best time to go to Canada for fall foliage is the first week of October? Also, would you expect snow along the route of the Canadian, which goes from Toronto through Northern Ontario and across the Prairie Provinces to Vancouver, in December? Or would a train to the Atlantic provinces offer a better bet? There is also a service which runs
I just ordered it!
Oh cool. NRSV editions are published on Scribd,* which I subscribe to, so if you could get me the title of that, that would be awesome.
By the way, are you ever allowed to wear a stole over your left shoulder in the manner of deacons, or a dalmatic? And does the pastor ever wear and/or is he allowed to wear, a cope or chasuble? I really love the Evangelical Catholic liturgy of your church, and I was wondering how far you are able to push it in terms of vesture, incense and so on.
*Also via Scribd I have access to the bizarre premillenial pretrib/Rapturist Calvinist KJV Study Bible, including the Color Edition, published by Thomas Nelson with a respectable group of PCA, OPC and Calvinist SBC editors), the New Oxford Annotated Study Bible with Apocrypha (one of a plethora of NRSV), the ESV Literary Study Bible, the Orthodox Study Bible (particularly useful because it has the Septuagint), the Jewish Study Bible, and many many others, including all of Zondervan’s NIV material (but I think it all uses the new NIV, which has liberal textual changes based on Today’s NIV, intended to make it more egalitarian, limiting its usefulness to me). Of course I had several of these in print, and other books I had to buy via Amazon, Google Books and iBooks, including the Lutheran Study Bible and the Jewish Annotated New Testament, but scribd is so handy.
The belief gained popularity from Scripture, which is our only source of TRUE intel about God.You completely missed the point, "first born" to a Jew says nothing about any other children. As with the Bible passage with Abram, brother and sister can mean people with completely different parents. Even the three leaders of the Protestant reformation agreed Mary had no other children, I don't know when your belief gained popularity with Baptists.
The belief gained popularity from Scripture, which is our only source of TRUE intel about God.
You completely missed the point, "first born" to a Jew says nothing about any other children. As with the Bible passage with Abram, brother and sister can mean people with completely different parents. Even the three leaders of the Protestant reformation agreed Mary had no other children, I don't know when your belief gained popularity with Baptists.
Actually, it was EISEGESIS, Protestant, or RCC, as Scripture mentions her other kids more than once. And again, Joseph didn't marry her just to be his cook, any more than I did my wife, and, if you're married, you, either.It is a misreading, and if you don’t believe me, the perpetual virginity of Mary was unanimously believed in not only by the early Church Fathers, but by Jan Hus, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Thomas Cranmer, and John Wesley, who are the definitive Protestant reformers and theologians. Such a belief can therefore be said to be the traditional Protestant exegesis.
you of course can believe it, but the belief that it is the only TRUE source is not biblical, nor is that belief shared by the Church from it's beginning until present day.The belief gained popularity from Scripture, which is our only source of TRUE intel about God.
I bet this idea comes from non-biblical sourcesJoseph didn't marry her just to be his cook, any more than I did my wife, and, if you're married, you, either.
Indeed it was/is. Our Confessions clearly state it.It is a misreading, and if you don’t believe me, the perpetual virginity of Mary was unanimously believed in not only by the early Church Fathers, but by Jan Hus, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Thomas Cranmer, and John Wesley, who are the definitive Protestant reformers and theologians. Such a belief can therefore be said to be the traditional Protestant exegesis.
Yep.I bet this idea comes from non-biblical sources
I was trying to find a rough time frame when the perpetual virginity of Mary really became questioned and it looks like sometime in the 17th century. However, I can't find any real source of where this originated from. Maybe @TheLiturgist has more information, maybe within radical elements of the English Reformation? Even the LCMS authorities such as Franz Pieper leaned towards perpetual virginity.
Actually, it was EISEGESIS, Protestant, or RCC, as Scripture mentions her other kids more than once.
And again, Joseph didn't marry her just to be his cook, any more than I did my wife, and, if you're married, you, either.
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