The Question of the Greek New Testament

[Wyrd of Gawd]

So why do you support child raping priests?

In the "Ask a Catholic" thread, I have explicitly stated that I support prosecution of priests who commit crimes such as this. You know this because you are participating in that thread.

Now, with that in mind, could you help me with a question about the forum rules? Specifically,

• No Trolling
  Trolling is where a person makes a deliberately provocative posting with the aim of inciting an angry response, and is not allowed. As discussions can at times get heated, not all provocative posts will get classed as trolling. However, if a member is found to be making multiple such posts, or appear to only be using the forum to provoke people, they will be in violation of this rule.
  

Would you say that your post does or does not meet the standard of trolling as defined by the forum administrators? Or are you merely being provocative?

Thanks.

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Ref. Post #115:  The Bible didn't exist before the English committee wrote the fairy tale into a single book around the year 700 AD as a gift to Pope Gregory II.  Books didn't exist before then.  The Bible didn't get into its current format until the later Middle Ages, which is when a lot of the characters were given new names.

Well, that is one version of the story. I heard it this way:

The Canon and the Councils

 
Council of Rome (382 A.D.)
 
Convoked by Pope Damasus, this council produced the Roman Code.  The Roman Code identified a list of scriptural books identical to the Council of Trent's formally defined canon. Pope Damasus I approved the work of the first Council of Constantinople, accepting St. Athanasius’ list as divinely inspired, and indicated that if any bishop used a list of books inconsistent with the Roman canon he would need a convincing explanation.
 
Council of Hippo (393 A.D.)
 
This council reiterated the list of books established by the Council of Rome.
 
First Council of Carthage (397 A.D.)
 
This council reiterated the list of books established by the Council of Rome and also affirmed the Decree of Damasus issued in 382 A.D.. Carthage, unlike Hippo, sent its decisions to Rome for ratification.
 
Pope Innocent I (405 A.D.)
 
In a letter to Exsuperius, the Bishop of Toulouse, Pope Innocent listed the same books established by the Council of Rome.
 
Pope Boniface (ca. 420 A.D.)
 
Pope St. Boniface I (418-422) ratified the decision of the first Council of Carthage and declared the canon settled for the Western Patriarchate. Boniface also sent the decision to the Eastern patriarchs in Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem. At that point, the Catholic Canon of Sacred Scripture was informally accepted worldwide.
 
Second Council of Carthage (419 A.D.)
 
This council reiterated the list of books established by the Council of Rome.
 
Second Council of Nicaea (787 A.D.)
 
This council formally ratified the African Code which contained the same list of books that Trent would name “canonical”.
 
Council of Florence (1441 A.D.)
 
This council defined a list of inspired books identical to those defined by the African Code and the Second Council of Nicaea.
 
Council of Trent (1546 A.D.)
 
On April 8, 1546, this council produced a decree, Sacrosancta, which was the first, formal canonical definition of Old and New Testament scripture. This was the third formal affirmation of the list by an ecumenical council and at least the eighth overall.

Actual books didn't exist until the English made the first ones when they wrote the first complete Bible around 600 AD.  Before that time people just had a lot of scrolls.