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To: daniel1212
Non-sense.As said, an authoritative body of wholly God-inspired writings ("Scripture," "it is written," etc.) had been established by the time of Christ, without any infallible decree.

The closest thing to such a list was the table of contents of the Septuagint...which included the deuterocanon.

38 posted on 10/07/2019 6:40:12 AM PDT by Campion ((marine dad))
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To: Campion
The closest thing to such a list was the table of contents of the Septuagint...which included the deuterocanon.

And so, per usual, the specious appeal to the Septuagint is invoked, which was already exposed as such in post 32 . Your premise requires that the LXX of the first century contained the Deuteros, which the evidence does not substantiate (manuscripts of anything like the capacity of Codex Alexandrinus were not used in the first centuries), and that the contents were (even close to) uniform in the extant mss that do contain them, which is hardly the case.

And in case you want to appeal to the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran,:

these included not only the community's Bible (the Old Testament) but their library, with fragments of hundreds of books. Among these were some Old Testament Apocryphal books. The fact that no commentaries were found for an Apocryphal book, and only canonical books were found in the special parchment and script indicates that the Apocryphal books were not viewed as canonical by the Qumran community. — The Apocrypha - Part Two Dr. Norman Geisler http://www.jashow.org/Articles/_PDFArchives/theological-dictionary/TD1W0602.pd

44 posted on 10/07/2019 7:33:31 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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