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To: Blogger

i find the whole protestants hate the extra books thing interesting because their chief complaint is that catholics use them to substantiate crazy things like puirgatory which the orthodox dont have anyway.

lets be honest is this more about whats scripture or finding a lame way to refute catholic innovations which would be easily dispensed with by noting that rome is 1 of the 5 original sees which split with the rest!


10,740 posted on 02/16/2007 7:39:33 PM PST by kawaii (Orthodox Christianity -- Proclaiming the Truth Since 33 A.D.)
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To: kawaii

Kawaii, I believe that my Protestant Scripture contains the only books God preserved as Canonical. The others were added to the CANON at Trent and were disputed by the early church - included in but not limited to Jerome's Vulgate.

The books are of inferior quality and pedigree from the accepted Hebrew Scriptures.

JESUS named the canon of his day as the Law, Prophets, and Psalms. Peter included the epistles and the gospels are mentioned as well in the testimony of Scripture.

As Sola Scripturaists, we try to stick with that which is Scriptural. Purgatory certainly isn't scriptural; but it really and honestly has little if nothing to do with my personal rejection of the Apocrypha.


10,742 posted on 02/16/2007 7:56:53 PM PST by Blogger
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