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I left the Catholic church years ago; i can assure you the divorce question was not even on the radar. I wasn't even married at the time. My husband is also former catholic. We both attend a very conservative Reformed Church, go to bible studies, active in the local Christian community, etc. Never been divorced and never will. My sibling, and many of my cousins who stayed Catholic.. all went to Catholic schools by the way.. are divorced and remarried or living together. Those of us that left have stayed in our long term marriages. Yes, there is plenty of sin to go around in all denominations, but by far i have found the conservative, Bible-believing Protestant churches to be more active and disciplined in their christian faith. And i would be happy to introduce you to many former Catholics who attend the same church as I who did not leave because of divorce. Besides.. how does a Catholic who was married for a number of years to another Catholic obtain an annulment and stay in the “church” with their present spouse? Just asking.

Notice the last few sentences, you gotta ask the three questions.

The Council of Trent was called in 1545 in response to the protestant reformation. One of the things they accomplished at Trent was a “reaffirmation that the 7 disputed books were indeed inspired and would continue to be included in the canon of the Old Testament”. They did not add them. They merely reconfirmed that they should be there. All Christian Bibles for the first 1500 years of Christianity had 46 books in the Old Testament, and all Catholic Bibles today continue to have them. I have noticed that even some King James Bibles now have them. Why is this?

History of the canons of the Old Testament can be confirmed by checking the records of the Councils of Hippo, Carthage, and Trent. They are readily available, as is St. Jerome’s Latin Vulgate and the Septuagint.

Christianity was in effect for between 35-65 years before the Jewish Council of Jamnia was called. As such, the Jewish Council had absolutely no authority whatsoever over Christianity. Suppose that next month of this year, the Jews decided to call a council in order to remove Isaiah and Jeremiah from the Old Testament and then voted to do it.

> Would Protestants also remove these books from the King James bible? It would seem they have already set a precedent. Why do Protestants accept the ruling of the Jewish Council of Jamnia, and at the same time reject the ruling of the Christian Council of Carthage regarding the Old Testament canon? Further still, why do they accept the canon of the New Testament which was decided at the same Christian Council? <