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Hi Conservative, remembered that you asked me this, so I want to respond. I would start here: "For instance, the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, states:[7]

Hi Conservative, remembered that you asked me this, so I want to respond. I would start here: "For instance, the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, states:[7]

A council probably held at Rome in 382 under St. Damasus gave a complete list of the canonical books of both the Old Testament and the New Testament (also known as the 'Gelasian Decree' because it was reproduced by Gelasius in 495), which is identical with the list given at Trent.

"A council probably held at Rome in 382 under St. Damasus gave a complete list of the canonical books of both the Old Testament and the New Testament (also known as the 'Gelasian Decree' because it was reproduced by Gelasius in 495), which is identical with the list given at Trent." ... And Catholic Answers, which claims to be “the world’s largest source of explanations for Catholic beliefs and practices”, says:[10]

Likewise, Catholic apologist and historian William Jurgens writes:[8]

It was the Catholic Church who determined the canon—or list of books—of the Bible under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. ... The process culminated in 382 as the Council of Rome, which was convened under the leadership of Pope Damasus, promulgated the 73-book scriptural canon." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelasian_Decree [[User:NishantXavier|NishantXavier]]^{[[User talk:NishantXavier|For Christ the King]]} 08:44, September 21, 2023 (EDT)

 

The first part of this decree has long been known as the Decree of Damasus, and concerns the Holy Spirit and the seven-fold gifts. The second part of the decree is more familiarly known as the opening part of the Gelasian Decree, in regard to the canon of Scripture: De libris recipiendis vel non recipiendis. It is now commonly held that the part of the Gelasian Decree dealing with the accepted canon of Scripture is an authentic work of the Council of Rome of 382 A.D. and that Gelasius edited it again at the end of the fifth century, adding to it the catalog of the rejected books, the apocrypha. It is now almost universally accepted that these parts one and two of the Decree of Damasus are authentic parts of the Acts of the Council of Rome of 382 A.D.

 

Some Catholic authors claim the Council of Rome of 382 closed the canon, and so the Christian Church's canon of Scripture is the "Catholic canon", defined in 382 and later repeated at Trent. Thus, the Catholic Encyclopedia:[9]

 

St. Jerome, a rising light in the Church, though but a simple priest, was summoned by Pope Damasus from the East, where he was pursuing sacred lore, to assist at an eclectic, but not ecumenical, synod at Rome in the year 382. Neither the general council at Constantinople of the preceding year nor that of Nice (365) had considered the question of the Canon. This Roman synod must have devoted itself specially to the matter. The result of its deliberations, presided over, no doubt, by the energetic Damasus himself, has been preserved in the document called "Decretum Gelasii de recipiendis et non recipiendis libris", a compilation partly of the sixth century, but containing much material dating from the two preceding ones. The Damasan catalogue presents the complete and perfect Canon which has been that of the Church Universal ever since.

And Catholic Answers, which claims to be “the world’s largest source of explanations for Catholic beliefs and practices”, says:[10]

Shortened. See also this, on the 4th Century Council of Carthage. 2 Maccabees, as well as Judith, Tobith etc, were in the Christian Canon for over a 1000 years before Luther. As Luther also criticized James and Revelation, beside others, it shows the absolute ecclesiastical anarchy to which denying the Bible Canon will result - if you can remove 5 or 10 books from the universally accepted Bible Canon in Christendom for over a 1000 years, why can't I remove 1 or 2 more? No, the Canon was fixed for all time in the 4th Century, and it always included Maccabees: "two books of the Maccabees." https://www.bible-researcher.com/carthage.html [[User:NishantXavier|NishantXavier]]^{[[User talk:NishantXavier|For Christ the King]]} 08:47, September 21, 2023 (EDT)

 

It was the Catholic Church who determined the canon—or list of books—of the Bible under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. ... The process culminated in 382 as the Council of Rome, which was convened under the leadership of Pope Damasus, promulgated the 73-book scriptural canon." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelasian_Decree [[User:NishantXavier|NishantXavier]]^{[[User talk:NishantXavier|For Christ the King]]} 08:44, September 21, 2023 (EDT)