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My original commentary was about the relevance of what the Jews believed to be the Old Testament as well as the fact that Jesus, Paul, Peter, and others were in fact Jews.

To that you stated:

Keep following the Jews and their decisions - to include their denial of Jesus of Nazareth being God in the flesh. I believe 1 John writes that such people are the anti-christ. So if you have decided to follow the Jewish decisions at Jamnia, you have just eliminated the Gospels as Sacred Scriptures. By your own mouth you are condemned.
Since your entire diatribe was irrelevant to my original statement, I brought it back to the issue of latent (and apparently not-so-latent) antisemitism that I am sensing in the thread and reminded one from Romans 11 what the status of the Jews are as well as the grafted in Gentiles. God has not thrown Israel away, though she is blinded in part. You should take the mind of Paul (and Christ) in this matter rather than harping about those evil Joooos.

And then you throw the "anti-semeticism" charge on us because we don't follow the Jewish decision?
No. Not the council of Jamnia's decision per se. They were obviously wrong when it comes to the gospels. However, there is a willingness here to throw out whatever they have said through the ages concerning the subject. When Jesus came as Messiah, do you really think that he would not have corrected them with a simple 'uh, guys, you all are calling false what is truly Scripture?' Up until that point, the 'deuterocanonical' books were not considered Scripture. Jesus, Peter, Paul, James, Luke, Mark, Matthew, and anyone speaking within the books of the NT never said 'oh, by the way, those are Scripture.' In the early church, Jerome did not consider them Scripture. Yet, because you all had a hissy fit over Luther, you scream to the top of your lungs and get your licks in against the Jews as a bonus in your support of non-Scriptural books. Sorry, the attitude against anything Jewish on this thread is anti-semitic. They were and are God's chosen people and He has not mislead them concerning what was Old Testament Scripture. Their blinding came AFTER Christ.

Next, you'll be calling Jesus "anti-semetic" because of His "Woe to the Pharisees" speech...
Speaking of 'spirits.' Check yours.