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Yes! A great beautiful treasure! Grateful for the Catholic monasteries and Monks who through the centuries meticulously preserved the texts for the Christian world until Gutenberg could put it to print. A must see!If you've never seen our copy of the Gutenberg Bible on campus, go check it out sometime. It's quite impressive and one of UT's greatest treasures.
The initial big controversy in the wake of the Gutenberg Bible was whether it was ok to print the Bible in some language other than Latin Vulgate.
While Jesus and the 12 Disciples probably also spoke Latin, their main languages were probably Aramaic and Hebrew.
Most of the world had no other means to receive the Word of God than by the preservation and voice of the Church. The Church was there before the New Testament so Jesus, in His infinite wisdom, established Her to canonize the NT scriptures for all the Christian world. Even after Gutenberg most of the world was poor or illiterate, so meticulous means continued to safe guard the Bible. If one hasn’t seen the Gutenberg bible, forget Disneyland, go to UT museum
It would have been informative if they had a reporter at the council where the Cannon was set to record the discussions and debates. Maybe it's buried somewhere deep in the Vatican archives.Nice try. Christ did not leave us a canon - but the Holy Scriptures clearly teach us He left us a Church, a living breathing Church, at that. The Old Testament books were written well before Jesus’ Incarnation, and all of the New Testament books were written (guided by the Holy Spirit) by roughly the end of the first century A.D. But the Bible as a whole was not officially compiled until the late fourth century, it was the Catholic Church who determined the canon, or list of books, of the Bible under the guidance of the Holy Spirit for the world. The Bible is not a self-canonizing collection of books, as there is not a Holy Spirit inspired table of contents in any of the books.
Although the New Testament canon was not determined until the late 300s, books the Church deemed sacred were early on proclaimed at Mass, and read and preached about otherwise. Early Christian writings outnumbered the 27 books that would become the canon of the New Testament. The shepherds of the CHURCH, by a process of spiritual discernment and investigation into the liturgical traditions of the Church spread throughout the world, had to draw clear lines of distinction between books that are truly inspired by God and originated in the apostolic period, and those which only claimed to have these qualities. This was certainly doable, after all, His Church is the pillar and bulwark (fortified wall) of Truth, as St Paul teaches us 1 Tim 3:16-17
The process culminated in 382 as the Council of Rome (historical FACT) which was convened under the leadership of Pope Damasus (historical fact) promulgated the 73-book scriptural canon. The biblical canon was reaffirmed by the regional councils of Hippo (393 Fact) and Carthage (397 Fact), and then definitively reaffirmed by the ecumenical Council of Florence in 1442.
Finally, the ecumenical Council of Trent solemnly defined this same canon in 1546, after it came under attack by the first Protestant leaders, including Martin Luther. By the way, Luther thanked Rome for the scriptures though he disagreed with Her on other matters.
Not only is it real, there is now good evidence that the image is during His ascension, not from supine positionIt is real!