I think the presumptions about my attitude about removing any Scripture that I consider Scripture would be very erroneous presumptions, indeed.
I hold to protecting every jot and tittle. And have a lot of respect for those who wish to do so with what they consider Canon.
However, we have been backwards and forwards over the histories as we each understand them and we disagree.
And, great hostility seems to be thrown at us Protesties over the Apocrapha being missing from our Canon.
It just struck me that there must be some great spiritual truths in the missing pages that we must be missing out on for there to be so much intense hostility on their being gone from our Canon.
It's difficult for me to believe that Christian bretheren would throw such intense rocks at us over very minor to relatively minor additions to the Canon.
Alas, I seem to be mistaken. There do not appear to be any central truths of great raging import [that are not found in the books we do include]--there do not appear to be any great central truths of great raging import--either to my Salvation nor to my growing in Spiritual maturity in my Holy Spirit led walk daily with Daddy.
So all the molten lava rocks hurled at us over the missing pages are generated . . . not really in defense of something crucially missing from our Scriptures . . . . but out of . . . a very parochial pique?
A very authoritarian compulsive need to set all the errant serfs right???
Hard to fathom.
This conversation began when some Protestants took offense to the fact that WE Catholics have "added" books to Sacred Scripture, then went about trying to defend that point of view, despite the departure from logic that had to be undertaken to do just that.
I find no "authoritarian compulsion" to do anything regarding Protestants. I am merely defending the Catholic view - providing information to those who are are not obstinate on the subject and are willing to look at both points of view before making an informed decision.
Regards