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To: RnMomof7; jjotto
The OT canon belongs to the Jews, God has never removed it from their care and authority ..Rome had no right to add uninspired books to their canon

What support do you have for this assertion? The Church is legitimate heir to the Old Testament through Jesus Christ and His Apostles. Rome added nothing that was not already among the Jewish canons. The Masoretic Text did not exist in its final form until many centuries after Christ.

Rabbinic Judaism recognizes the twenty-four books of the Masoretic Text

Again, the Masoretic Text does not contain the books of Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, and Esther. These books are, however, included in the Protestant canon. Do you disown the Protestant canon?

87 posted on 05/05/2011 5:53:24 PM PDT by mas cerveza por favor
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To: mas cerveza por favor
Again, the Masoretic Text does not contain the books of Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, and Esther.

Again, the 'Masoretic text' DOES include the books of Ecclesiastes (Kohelet), Song of Solomon (Shir HaShirim), and Esther.

88 posted on 05/05/2011 6:17:33 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: mas cerveza por favor; RnMomof7
The OT canon belongs to the Jews, God has never removed it from their care and authority.

If true, this would mean, according to the (non-Septuagint) OT canon and Zakkai's school, Jamnia c.90 A.D. :

Jesus is *not* the Messiah, there is no afterlife reference in the OT, and there's a curse on converts to Christianity.

92 posted on 05/06/2011 11:22:08 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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