Hopefully we can agree on that point.
The Jews are forever gratefull that the catholics put their stamp of approval on the Old Testament.(/sarcasm) No rabbinical body decided upon the canon of the Old Testament. The canon was recognized by Israel and available as it was being written.
Daniel, a captive in Babylon, had a copy of Jeremiah written only a few years earlier and was studying it as scripture (Daniel 9:2). How is it that the Jews were able, through the Spirit of God to determine what was inspired yet we, according to you, would have no idea what was scripture unless the Catholic Church told us.
The Synod of Antioch, in A.D. 266, denounced the doctrine od Paul of Samasota as "foreign to the ecclisiastical canon". The Council of Nicea in 325 refers to "the Canon";and the Council of Laodicea said that only 'canonized' books of both the Old and New Testaments be read in church.
Yet none of those Councils deemed it necessary to list the canonized books, indicating that they were already well-known and accepted by common Christians the same way the Jews accepted their scripture.
It wasn't until the Third council of Carthage, in A.D.397 do we have the first decision on the canon. That is rather late if without it Christians didn't know what books were in the Old and new Testaments and therefore couldn't use them as Rome claims today.
The arrogance of Rome on this subject is sickening. Putting their so called "Stamp of approval" on what was already known and claiming authority on it is disgusting.
According to Paul, ordinary Christians are to judge what is truth (1 Corintians 14:37) and it was Peter who refered to Pauls writings as scripture long before Jerome.
Sorry but we can't agree even on this point.