ealgeone:
Well are free to hold what you hold. I don’t agree. You don’t want to address John 10:22 because you can’t reconcile it with your protestant 39 book canon. Again it is either 1] Scripture or 2] Christ is affirming Oral Tradition. Either way doesn’t work for you.
I am going to cite some NT passages and ask if you can find the passage that the NT is drawing from and quoting/referencing.
Rev 8:2 speaks of 7 angels. Do you find that in any of the 39 books in your OT, which are also in mine?
Luke 6:31 has the golden rule. Do you find something similar to the Golden rule in the 39 books in your OT, which are also in mine.
Hebrews 11:35 has the passage “some were tortured refusing to accept release that they might rise again to a better life. Do you find that reference/teaching in the 39 books in your OT, which are also mined?
I am just curios how Protestant Bibles tie those back to the OT.
I have no problem with the passage.
John is recording the time and what is happening.
But we also have more information as to what is happening in v23.
It does not mean Jesus was affirming what was happening anymore than He would affirm the sacrifices or other practices of the Jews.
It is something the Jews were celebrating....but, as we see in the NT the Jews didn't get a lot right.
I am going to cite some NT passages and ask if you can find the passage that the NT is drawing from and quoting/referencing.
When a writer in the NT draws on other sources, such as what you're alluding to, it only means the portion of what is cited is inspired....not the entire work.
Else we'd have to cite as authoritative the non-Biblical works Paul cites in his writings.....and I don't think you want to include those in the NT canon.
So my position remains intact.
Hanukkah, or the Feast of Dedication, is not one of the festivals instituted by God through Moses as part of the Law. That is not to say, however, that the festival is unbiblical or unpleasing to God. From Daniel to Jesus’ disciples to Jews persecuted under Hitler’s power and Christians persecuted in the Orient, both Jews and Christians have a long history of showing extraordinary courage in the face of intense persecution, just as the Jews did during the Seleucid oppression. The Feast of Dedication is about the darkness of persecution and the light of God that leads His people through the darkness of those figurative nights with a promise of joy in the morning (Psalm 30:5).
https://www.gotquestions.org/Feast-of-Tabernacles.html