[mlizzy]

Well my goodness mlizzy read the text of the thread!

Maybe this is helpful:

"The issue here is Pope Gelasius (this decree is also attributed to Pope Damasus) condemned a long list of books as heretical, including one called "the Assumption of holy Mary." The decree doesn't say specifically what is heretical about the books listed. For example, another book in the list is called "the Infancy of the Savior." Obviously the idea that Jesus was an infant is not what made the book problematic, but there must have been some other heretical stuff in the book--same with the book on the Assumption. This decree was later reaffirmed by Pope Hormisdas. Here is the decree in question:" -Genesis 315

http://www.tertullian.org/decretum_eng.htm

[editor-surveyor]

John 3:13
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[Syncro]

Read the text of the article so you can debate with knowledge of the context.

There is no Genesis 315 and what you attribute to Genesis 315 is not in the Bible.

[BlueDragon]

Try this one. And think.

http://www.tertullian.org/articles/burkitt_gelasianum.htm

The decree has been well enough shown to not have originated when it purports itself to have originated.

The later dating fits better with outside evidence from Councils of the previous eras also -- in regards to prerogatives claimed to belong to the bishop of Rome.

This is one of those areas in which the inflationary process occurred -- the misrepresentation being evidence in itself of some degree of fraud.

The Church of Rome has been like that since Damasus --mixing small portions of mistake or deliberate misrepresentation (in regards to itself) in with "truth" as it was otherwise regarded at various times...

In this effort there was deliberate back-dating going on...done by whomever.

At each step, all along the way to concept of singular "papacy" there is a whiff of this type of thing.

[daniel1212]

Yet as the same site provides, the authority of the Decretum Gelasianum, is disputed (among RC’s themselves), based upon evidence that it was pseudepigraphical, being a sixth century compilation put together in northern Italy or southern France at the beginning of the 6th cent. http://www.tertullian.org/articles/burkitt_gelasianum.htm