Protestants follow the NT that was made up using Catholic Tradition!
When the church began, there were no New Testament books. Old Testament texts alone were used as scripture. Thus, the Catholic church existed for roughly twenty years with no New Testament books, only the oral form of the teaching of the apostles. Even after a book was written, it was not immediately widely available.
Although the New Testament books we have today were written in the first century, it took time for them to be accepted as universally authoritative. Initially, only the life and sayings of Christ were considered of equal authority with the Old Testament scriptures.
The Gospel spoken of was often the Oral Gospel and not exclusively the four Gospels we have in our current Bible.
In the first one and a half centuries of the Catholic Church's history, there was no single Gospel writing which is directly made known, named, or in any way given prominence by quotation. Written and oral traditions run side by side./b]
The reason for this is that the authority of Christ's words came from Christ having spoken them and not from the words appearing in a sacred text in a fixed form.
St. Irenaeus (c. 130-c. 200), Bishop of Lyons and a great fighter against heresy, was the last writer to use the Oral Gospel as an independent source. He initially fought heresy using only the Old Testament and the Catholic churches Oral tradition.
However, later, in response to needs arising from fighting Gnosticism and Marcionism, he came to use the books of New Testament.
St. Irenaeus, who was previously mentioned in connection with the Oral Gospel, produced the first known catholic canon. He was the first to adopt Marcion's notion of a new scripture. He used this idea to fight heresies, including Marcion's. He recognized the four gospel canon.
You believe in a Catholic Traditional New Testament, so you Follow part of Catholic Tradition.
How intresting is that?
what is more intresting is that I posted this perticular Post twice now and its been deleted! You cannot answer me or something?
I am on topic and I havent broken any forum rules, so why are you deleting my posts?
Peace