[Always Right]

Oddly the whole premese seems to be refuted by the article itself....here it says:

Protestant Bibles contain all those books, except those rejected by the Protestant Reformers in the 1500’s.

Then later it states:

DISCUSSION: Prior to Jesus’ time, the Jews did not have a sharply defined, universal canon of Scripture. Some groups of Jews used only the first five books of the Old Testament (the Pentateuch); some used only the Palestinian canon (39 books); some used the Alexandrian canon (46 books), and some, like the Dead Sea community....

Obviously there was a precedent for the Protestant Old Testament in the Palestinian canon predating Christ. So to state the Protestant canon was some 1500's creation with sinister motives is just flat out wrong.

[NYer]

Oddly the whole premese seems to be refuted by the article itself....here it says:

Speed reading was never my forte. You jumped over the response. I suggest you go back and read the post through.

[IrishCatholic]

Actually, it doesn’t. If you read it again it might be clearer. It talks about why the Jews rejected the version used by the Apostles and that version was later seized on by the Protestant Reformers.

[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“Obviously there was a precedent for the Protestant Old Testament in the Palestinian canon predating Christ.”

What Palestinian canon predated Christ?

“So to state the Protestant canon was some 1500’s creation with sinister motives is just flat out wrong.”

No, it’s true. Even Protestants sometimes admit this albeit without the “sinsiter” idea. Take a look at the works of the Lutheran (IIRC) Albert C. Sundberg.

You also might want to read the book by Gary Michuta called Why Catholic Bibles are Bigger: http://www.handsonapologetics.com/index.htm