The Bible came from the Church. The Canon of Scripture was fixed at the Council or synod of Carthage in 397 A.D. This Council determined once and for all, for Orthodox Christians, what books were to be considered Holy Scripture. Among the heterodox, the Roman Catholic Church had no official canon until the Council of Trent in the 16th century (although the Vulgate was accepted as the official text since the 5th century), and the protestant churches still have no
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