NT by Whom, for What and WHY?

[Porknpie]

All - what are your thoughts on “why and for what” was the new testament canon formed? Note, this is not a question on the number of books in the bible. That is well traveled territory. Focus on answers on why and for what use(s) was the canon formed.

Ok scholars and semi scholars, what you think?

Pork n Pie

 

[pablope]

All - what are your thoughts on “why and for what” was the new testament canon formed? Note, this is not a question on the number of books in the bible. That is well traveled territory. Focus on answers on why and for what use(s) was the canon formed.

Ok scholars and semi scholars, what you think?

Pork n Pie

To have a standard set of readings during our Mass…

 

[Fr_Bart_SVD]

All - what are your thoughts on “why and for what” was the new testament canon formed? Note, this is not a question on the number of books in the bible. That is well traveled territory. Focus on answers on why and for what use(s) was the canon formed.

Ok scholars and semi scholars, what you think?

Pork n Pie

Very simple. To distinguish true inspired texts from false. In other words: to separate simply human compositions (apocrypha) from compositions where the Holy Spirit is giving “a stamp of approval” that all what is written about divine truths is genuine .

 

[kentuckyliz]

Vatican II Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation Dei Verbum 11:
“for the sake of our salvation”

There’s your why answer.

It’s a very good document, you should read the whole thing.

 

[Porknpie]

To have a standard set of readings during our Mass…

Pablope, what is the evidence of this? It gets at the why and for “what use”

 

[TimothyH]

Vatican II Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation Dei Verbum 11:
“for the sake of our salvation”

There’s your why answer.

It’s a very good document, you should read the whole thing.

At the end of the day, that’s really it.

Scripture is God’s communcation to man so that we can know how to spend eternity with him.

The canon of scripture was determined by the Church but was an action of the Holy Spirit for the singular purpose of our salvation. It was men doing the will of God.

-Tim-

 

[Porknpie]

Very simple. To distinguish true inspired texts from false. In other words: to separate simply human compositions (apocrypha) from compositions where the Holy Spirit is giving “a stamp of approval” that all what is written about divine truths is genuine .

Hi Father -

So for what purpose(s) and use was the church using the texts before and after the formation of the NT canon?

 

[Fr_Bart_SVD]

Hi Father -

So for what purpose(s) and use was the church using the texts before and after the formation of the NT canon?

For different purposes. For the liturgical use, catechetical, apologetical etc. Before and after purposes remained the same, but after formation of the canon they known which text has ‘God’s authority’. But even in the process of formation we can see the working of the Holy Spirit acting in the Church.

 

[pablope]

Originally Posted by pablope View Post
To have a standard set of readings during our Mass…

Pablope, what is the evidence of this? It gets at the why and for “what use”

I am trying to the find the source…i was some time ago.

But to explain further, there were writings that are not in the Bible canon today that were also deemed as "Scripture’ and were read in Church during the Mass.

Example would be the Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians 1, which was read for several decades at Corinth, and was considered as “Scripture”.

After the canon proclamation, there would be a standard set of writings to be read during the Mass, in all of Christendom.