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What Old Testament are you coming from?
I pick out a couple of his “references” at random and there’s no connection whatsoever. Who is this guy?
The reference given for this info is a good one. You might also include the “Book of Enoch” directly referenced in Jude. Perhaps many Freepers are not aware of the sources which were available to the Old Testament and New Testament writers.
Could we have DIRECT references with the citation “scripture says”?
Amazing list!
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Thank you GonzoII.
The reason Luther decided to truncate the Old Testament was not because he looked for the apostolic authority but because the Deuterocanon especially makes mincemeat of his fake theology.
Saint Paul also quoted Pagan Greek poets....but we don’t count them as canonical. Allusions to Jewish popular literature of the day (what the Apocrypha basically is...) does not make those books holy or authoritative scripture.
Protestants just follow the Jewish canon, and Roman Catholics innovated on that adding books (some of which are non-sense, like the Tobit legend, or Bell and the Dragon....).
Most Roman Catholic errors are actually innovations—developed many hundreds of years after the Apostles.
It is a fact, that the Jews don’t-—and haven’t for nearly 2000 years, accepted the Apocrypha—books by Jewish writers before Christ—as inspired Canon. Protestants just accept the Old Testament as the Jews wrote it, and passed it on to us....
Roman Catholics though, don’t trust the Jews (just look at the many centuries of antisemitism in Roman Catholic Europe...), therefore they don’t accept the Jewish Canon of the Old Testament.
To claim Protestants dreamed up the rejection of the Apocrypha is all too typical Roman Catholic apologist lying.