[Cronos]

your link is funneee!

Many Protestants are also aware of the fact that in choosing a Bible one must avoid the shelf labelled "Roman Catholic Bibles," because these are designed to promote Catholic beliefs

Really? Designed? Then how come the Orthodox share these same books? And how come, if you stay true to the translation, you come up with "Catholic Bibles"?

And so it is evident that most of us receive certain books and reject others not because we have personally evaluated them in any way, but because we trust that someone else has evaluated them and decided rightly concerning this matter, so that all scripture and nothing but scripture is between the covers of our Bibles.

You further refute the statement that protestants come to their own beliefs and are inspired on their ownsome. No, many believe what has been taught to them. That's why Dion is hesitant to call you heretics as this is the belief system you have been brought up in and honestly believe in as the truth.

In the year 367 an influential bishop named Athanasius published a list of books to be read in the churches under his care, which included precisely those books we have in our Bibles (with this exception — he admitted Baruch and omitted Esther in the Old Testament).

This is silly -- the author accepts the word of ONE Bishop but discounts the words of a council barely a century later?

[annalex]

It is funny. Makes me regret I did not go to the links. Imagine the deviousness with which the East and the West, in the course of thousands of years designed a bible to promote Catholic beliefs.

[HarleyD]

No, many believe what has been taught to them. That's why Dion is hesitant to call you heretics as this is the belief system you have been brought up in and honestly believe in as the truth.

Sorry, but I wasn't brought up under this belief system. I only found out about it 3 years ago. For over 30 years I held what I now know is the Arminian view simply because I didn't know there was another perspective.

You'll never explain most of the scriptures under your Arminian soteriology. However, that doesn't matter to you. You're Catholic and the Church will tell you what to believe.