I guess the Apostles were not self-respecting Jews then.
How would you know what the Jewish "magistrerium" was considering that the priests who were in charge of the Temple were Sadducees who died out? We only have morphed Pharisees who re-set the canon in Jamnia.
One of the Jamnia-invented requirements for acceptance of any text was that it be written in Hebrew. For three hundred years many Jews used the Septuagint and not one complaint was heard about it.
Their 'beef' was with Christianity being a 'law-breaking' sect which is actually correct. One of the descriptions of +James by Josephus, the 'brother of the so-called Messiah" is said to have been executed as a 'lawbreaker.'
It is amazing we continuing to have this conversation. Don't they realize that they are tossing out the baby with the bath water by questioning the Canon and siding with the Jews' decisions??? The only explanation behind this continued absurd self-defeating logic is a hatred towards the Church. They will commit intellectual suicide so as to "prove" the Church was WRONG!
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"The only explanation behind this continued absurd self-defeating logic is a hatred towards the Church. They will commit intellectual suicide so as to "prove" the Church was WRONG!"
Let's see if we can reduce this whole problem to a simple mathematical formula.
Septuagint (O.T. + Apocrypha) + N.T. = Church
Septuagint - Apocrypha + N.T. = non Church (hatred towards the Church)
Therefore: Apocrypha = Church