It is amazing we continuing to have this conversation. Don't they realize that they are tossing out the baby with the bath water by questioning the Canon and siding with the Jews' decisions??? The only explanation behind this continued absurd self-defeating logic is a hatred towards the Church. They will commit intellectual suicide so as to "prove" the Church was WRONG!
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Certainly it seems that way, Jo. Historical facts show that they are wrong. There was NO Jewish 'canon' before Jamnia. Judaism was an amalgam of different sects, using different canons.
They also treat the Septuagint 'Greek' OT like some Gentile imitation, saying that the Jews had the right to determine their own canon. And Greek-speaking Jews were not Jews with the same rights?
They also neglect the fact that many Jews used the Septuagint with all its books as Scripture for at least two and a half centuries before Christ and no one had told them to stop it! Not even the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem.
By some fantastic 'coincidence' the Christ-denying Pharisaical rabbis of Jamnia in 100 AD threw out not just the Septuagint but also the NT. The only reason they threw out the Septuagint is because the Apostles and their followers used it as the OT. No one ever suggested it before that. No one!