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To: ~Matahari
... written around the time that the Roman Catholic faith added the errant apocrypha to their Bible in 1546.

How many time do we have to go over this? There is plenty of documentary evidence that the Deuterocanonical books were universally used in Christian worship as Holy Scripture from the time of the Apostles and that they were officially confirmed as such by Pope Innocent I at the beginning of the 5th century. The periodic questions that were raised about them were private opinions that never effected their use in worship or their official recognition by the Church.

49 posted on 11/14/2005 2:08:40 PM PST by Petrosius
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To: Petrosius
” How many time do we have to go over this? There is plenty of documentary evidence that the Deuterocanonical books were universally used in Christian worship as Holy Scripture from the time of the Apostles and that they were officially confirmed as such by Pope Innocent I at the beginning of the 5th century. The periodic questions that were raised about them were private opinions that never effected their use in worship or their official recognition by the Church. ”

Your facts are much in error. As are the apocryphal books.

First, the Jewish Canon does not include the Apocrypha.

This is significant as it was to the Jews that the OT was entrusted (Rom 3:1,2) and they are the custodians of the limits of their own canon.

Josephus (A.D. 30-100), a Jewish historian explicitly excluded the Apocrypha.

The Jewish Talmud teaches that the Holy Spirit departed from Israel after the time of Malachi. How do you explain this?

How did the Council of Trent ever declare the Apocrypha was Scripture in the first place? Much in the same way Vatican I decreed papal infallibility.

Admit it, that is the crux of this matter, my friend.

54 posted on 11/14/2005 2:27:28 PM PST by ~Matahari (“earnestly contend for the faith once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 3))
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