Ambiguity and miss-mashing words will not serve you well.
The Council of Tent was a dogmatic Council, but ‘they’ DID NOT define The Canon of Scriptures.
What was ambiguous in my post and what was miss-mashing?
You too answered false to my question of whether or not a believer had freedom in accepting the OT canon.
I have a few questions for you.
a.) At what point is a belief/teaching binding upon the conscious of Catholics?
b.) If Catholics had no freedom than what do you make of the following facts:
1.) The Glossa Ordinaire which was the major study bible of the time rejected the apocrypha in regards to inspiration.
2.) Pope Gregory the Great is a doctor of the Church and was bishop of Rome from A.D. 590-604. In his commentary on the book of Job he stated that the book of 1 Maccabees was not canonical. It’s possible he wrote this book before he was pope but you stil have to wonder why he would reject something that was binding upon his conscience.
3.) In the early sixteenth century, just prior to the Reformation, Cardinal Ximenes, the Archbishop of Toledo, in collaboration with the leading theologians of his day, produced an edition of the Bible called the Biblia Complutensia. There is an admonition in the Preface regarding the Apocrypha, that the books of Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, the Maccabees, the additions to Esther and Daniel, are not canonical Scripture and were therefore not used by the Church for confirming the authority of any fundamental points of doctrine. This Bible, as well as its Preface, was published by the authority and consent of Pope Leo X, to whom the whole work was dedicated.
4.) Cardinal Cajetan, Luther’s opponent at Augsburg in 1518, gave an unhesitating approval to the Hebrew canon in his Commentary on All the Authentic Historical Books of the Old Testament, which he dedicated in 1532 to pope Clement VII. He expressly called attention to Jerome’s separation of the canonical from the uncanonical books, and maintained that the latter must not be relied upon to establish points of faith, but used only for the edification of the faithful.
