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To: CatherineofAragon
Catherine, I really don't want to carry this any further, since it is 10:45 and beyond my bedtime. I can feel the ZZZ's coming on.

You make a good point: that Paul's letters to Timothy were written to be true also in the light of the future, because God sees the future. True.

But you've proved perhaps rather more than you wanted to prove...

... because you've got the Holy Spirit and Paul accepting the whole Bible! which would mean the whole Septuagint as was current in the first-century AD. The LXX was the translation and OT canon used by the Jewish communities of the Mediterranean basin, even in Galilee, and including Paul's communities.

You do know that 75 - 80% of the time when the NT writers quote the OT, they are quoting the Septuagint translation verbatim.

Obviously, somebody's got to discern, decide, acknolwedge and/or confirm the canon, because without an orthodox canon you don't know what the Bible is.

So, since I do think God knows the result, I think that makes a strong case for the full 73-book Catholic Orthodox Bible, which was the Bible of all Christians --- Catholics, Orthodox, Copts, Ethiopians, even the so-called Nestorians --- until the 16th century.

Not blaming you, but at other times on this forum I have asked just who it was who decided to de-canonize 7 books of the canon (seriously, I was looking for names). Nobody could give me even a wiki cut-and-paste.

So, carry on! And a good night to you, friend. ZZZZZZ. ;o)

56 posted on 03/15/2013 7:47:53 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ( "You can observe a lot just by watchin'. " -- Yogi Berra)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Good night to you, too, and God bless.

But I was the one who DIDN’T want to get into it, remember?
I answered your question. But I won’t be dragged into the Protestant/Catholic debate threads.

We have our convictions, and neither will likely change the other’s mind. We’ll be able to talk it over in Heaven one day, but it won’t matter then.

In friendship,
CoA


57 posted on 03/15/2013 8:43:06 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization)
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