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To: jo kus; blue-duncan
You have described for me the Pharisee opinion of the Canon. Wonderful. Now, what about the Saduccee or the Essene opinion?

Actually, what I think b-d described was the Jewish forefathers (Christians) opinion of the Canon. Who cares what the Saduccees thought because, as our Lord Jesus told them, they "knew neither the scriptures nor the power of God". So that would raise the question why their opinion would count.


9,052 posted on 02/06/2007 7:12:31 AM PST by HarleyD
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To: HarleyD
I think b-d described was the Jewish forefathers (Christians) opinion of the Canon. Who cares what the Saduccees thought because, as our Lord Jesus told them, they "knew neither the scriptures nor the power of God". So that would raise the question why their opinion would count.

Jesus said that to the Pharisees, as well. I think after Jerusalem fell in 70 AD, the only group of religious left were the Pharisees, so naturally, it would appear that early Christians agreed with them. However, the Septuagint already included what we would now call the Old Testament. Christians didn't have to rely on the Jews to tell them the Canon - the first Christians WERE Jews!

As to this:

But there was never any disagreement over the apocryphal books, because they were always rejected by the Jewish church

SO WERE THE GOSPELS... Have you torn them out of your Jewish Bible yet?

Quite simply, the reason the OLD TESTAMENT Deuterocannonicals are not in the Protestant Bible is because of theological points, not the Jews...

Regards

9,428 posted on 02/07/2007 10:19:10 AM PST by jo kus (Humility is present when one debases oneself without being obliged to do so- St.Chrysostom; Phil 2:8)
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