Page 67: The canon of the New Testament slowly took shape over the first 300 years of Christianity. Some books, like the four Gospels, were widely accepted early on, whereas others were doubted by many for a long time. But by the fifth century, the New Testament canon of twenty-seven books was firmly settled. In spite of this, over a thousand years later, Martin Luther dismissed four of those books when he translated the New Testament into German.
Note: Pope Leo X didn’t live the Word of God and the entire canon meant nothing to him.
Giovanni was elected Pope on 9 March 1513, and this was proclaimed two days later. The absence of the French cardinals effectively reduced the election to a contest between Giovanni (who had the support of the younger and noble members of the College) and Raffaele Riario (who had the support of the older group). On 15 March 1513, he was ordained priest, and consecrated as bishop on 17 March. He was crowned Pope on 19 March 1513 at the age of 37. He was the last non-priest to be elected Pope. Wikipedia Encyclopedia.
Note: God struck down Pope Leo X after he excommunicated Martin Luther.

Pages 67-68: Martin Luther was excommunicated in the year 1521. The following year, he published his German New Testament but relegated four of the books to the end with this preface: “Up to this point we have had to do with the true and certain chief books of the New Testament. The four which follow have from ancient times had a different reputation.” Hebrews, James, Jude, and Revelation were the books whose inspiration he rejected.
Note: Pope Leo X didn’t live the Word of God and the entire canon meant nothing to him.
Following the death of Pope Julius II, Giovanni was elected pope after securing the backing of the younger members of the Sacred College. Early on in his rule he oversaw the closing sessions of the Fifth Council of the Lateran, but failed sufficiently to implement the reforms agreed. In 1517 he led a costly war that succeeded in securing his nephew as duke of Urbino, but which damaged the papal finances. He later only narrowly escaped a plot by some cardinals to poison him. Wikipedia Encyclopedia.
Note: God protected Martin Luther while destroying Pope Leo X.

Page 68: So Luther submitted the books of the Bible to his own doctrine and found them incompatible with it. He also judged that Jude was merely a modified copy of 2 Peter, and added his opinion that its unique sayings are further reason to reject it. Luther excoriated Revelation as well, denying that an apostle wrote it or that the Holy Spirit inspired it. These four books were placed in an appendix in an effort to drop them from the New Testament entirely.
Note: Pope Leo X didn’t live the Word of God and the entire canon meant nothing to him.
Several modern historians have concluded that Leo was homosexual. Pierre Bayle writing later in 1697 observed "Nothing contributed more to his elevation to the papacy, than the wounds he had earlier received in Venerean combat", implying an anal fistula Leo had allegedly developed at the time of the conclave which elected him pope was a result of sexual activity. Leo's 19th-century biographer William Roscoe dismissed this as Protestant polemic, failing to take into account two of the leading papal historians of the time who shared a belief that Leo engaged in "unnatural vice": these were Leo's governor Francesco Guicciardini, who wrote "At the beginning of his pontificate most people deemed him very chaste; however, he was afterwards discovered to be exceedingly devoted – and every day with less and less shame – to that kind of pleasure that for honour's sake may not be named" and the bishop, historian and physician to Clement VII Paolo Giovio, who explained that "the pope did not escape the accusation of infamy, for the love he showed several of his chamberlains smacked of scandal in its playful liberality", and suggesting that what occurs in the night remain left unexamined. Wikipedia Encyclopedia.
Note: God protected Martin Luther while destroying Pope Leo X.

Page 69: It might appear at first that Luther was merely trying to be historically accurate in rejecting these books, since three of the four were not universally accepted early on in the Church. However, it is clear that Luther denied the inspiration of these books primarily for theological, not historical, reasons. Sure, the early doubts about these books made his claims more palatable. But in truth, these books either contained teachings that directly contradicted the novel doctrines he was proposing, or he simply did not think much of them.
Note: Pope Leo X didn’t live the Word of God and the entire canon meant nothing to him.
Leo X's love for all forms of art stemmed from the humanistic education he received in Florence, his studies in Pisa and his extensive travel throughout Europe. He loved the Latin poems of the humanists, the tragedies of the Greeks or the Livian comedies of Bibbiena and Ariosto, while still following the accounts from the explorers of the New World. Yet "Such a humanistic interest was itself religious. ... In the Renaissance, the vines of the classical world and the Christian world, of Rome, were seen as intertwined. It was a historically minded culture where artists' representations of Cupid and the Madonna, of Hercules and St. Peter could exist side-by-side." Wikipedia Encyclopedia.
Note: God protected Martin Luther while destroying Pope Leo X.

Page 69: If Protestantism is true, then there is no reason why someone today could not remove any number of books from the New Testament and declare that he has come up with the true Bible, made up of whichever books coincide with his beliefs. After all, the father of the Protestant Reformation did just that to a thousand-year-old canon.
Note: Martin Luther was not perfect but pope Leo X was a heretic.
Martin Luther (10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German monk, Catholic priest, professor of theology and seminal figure of the 16th-century movement in Christianity known later as the Protestant Reformation.[1] He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with monetary values. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel, a Dominican friar, with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517. His refusal to retract all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the Pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the Emperor. Wikipedia Encyclopedia.
Note: God protected Martin Luther while destroying Pope Leo X.

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