I think I long ago lost in all the shuffle . . .
What significant . . . theological truths
of great centrality . . . are missing from the Protesty Canon?
Two questions: What would you consider a "theological truth of great centrality"?
And secondly, couldn't one take out one book out of Scripture and STILL get the message of a great theological truth? Does Scripture only point to such a great centrality in one place? Thus, with your attitude, we could really get rid of a lot of books of Scriptures...
Maybe the Holy Spirit will speak to a few people on this thread to let them know which ones we could take out of the Canon THIS century...
Regards
Two that come readily to mind are prayer on behalf of the dead and an explicit Scriptural basis for the doctrine of creation ex nihilo (no in neither the Hebrew nor the Greek is the word in Genesis a technical word that means creation from nothing, the word translated 'create' means make, period--only in Second Maccabees is there an explicit statement that God made the world out of nothing).
Some of books excluded by the protestants also have a salutory emphasis on repentence, and make plain that the general resurrection was an Old Covenant doctrine with a Scriptural basis in contradiction to the position of the Sadducees.