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To: george wythe
"Even most Protestants play a similar game by rejecting some of the 73 books of the Bible accepted by Catholic and Orthodox Christians. "

I don't think this is in the same league. Prior to "canonization" of New Testament scriptures by either Protestants or Catholics, some of the books studied were thought to be good but not at the same level of inspiration as the apostolic works.

Protestants merely canonized the works that were clearly apostolic in origin. That the Catholics later canonized the apocrapha, including some books that were not apostolic or whose origins were in doubt, should not be construed as Protestants picking and choosing to suit themselves.

43 posted on 11/03/2003 11:07:29 AM PST by DannyTN (Note left on my door by a pack of neighborhood dogs.)
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To: DannyTN
I strongly disagree with your Protestant version of Church history, but I still think that you worship the same God as me.

Protestants, Muslims, Jews, Catholic and Orthodox Christian worship the same God.

44 posted on 11/03/2003 11:18:10 AM PST by george wythe
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