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To: RMF who wrote (1734)	2/4/2013 2:52:33 AM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2133

"How do we know that "God has condescended down to our level"?" We know that God has condescended to us because Jesus came, died for us and then rose again from the dead. "Emperor Constantine put this group together and THEY decided WHAT would be in the New Testament." I keep hearing this canard over and over again from the atheist/agnostics on this site. Just for your information; that is at best misleading and is in fact largely false. The New Testament writings were circulated and accepted as Scripture in the Churches for centuries before they were officially recognized. One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included in a canonical list; on the contrary, the Church included them in her canon because she already regarded them as divinely inspired, recognising their innate worth and general apostolic authority, direct or indirect. The first ecclesiastical councils to classify the canonical books were both held in North Africa — at Hippo Regius in 393 and at Carthage in 397 — but what these councils did was not to impose something new upon the Christian communities but to codify what was already the general practice of those communities. FF Bruce bible-researcher.com