Council of Nicaea and the biblical canon?

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I was wondering. I want to say I remeber hearing someone say that the Council of Nicaea addressed the Canon of the Bible. Does anyone know if this is true and if it is, where in the Council did they address it? Thanks and God bless.
 
There were two general councils held in Niceae and neither addressed the issue of Scripture. The first addressed Arianism while the second addressed the issue of Iconoclasm.

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Montie_Claunch said:
I was wondering. I want to say I remeber hearing someone say that the Council of Nicaea addressed the Canon of the Bible. Does anyone know if this is true and if it is, where in the Council did they address it? Thanks and God bless.
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St. Jerome mentions that the Council of Nicaea accepted the book of Judith. The notion was echoed in the writings of some later fathers, but scholars today do not believe the council addressed the canon. Its more likely that the Council fathers may have used Judith in their discussions but there was not official decree concerning its canonical status. I also heard that some Islamic apologists claim that the canon was selected at this council. This, however, is baseless. Indeed, had the Council of Nicaea defined the canon, Jerome, who was solidly pro-Nicaea, would not have rejected the Deuterocanon.
 
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Arguments about 73 or 66 usually are either ended in confusion in trying to present all the evidence, because no one (until now) has really accumulated all that evidence.

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