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To: Natural Law
Most Protestants don't accept your Church's cannonicity of Scripture.

Our old Testament follows the cannonicity of Judaism, while the cannon of the New Testament was universally accepted well before the events giving rise to the Reformantion.

39 posted on 10/28/2011 2:49:39 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Mr. Lucky

Well, the Jews rejected the Septuagint because it was used by the Christians complete with the canon.

Protestants rejected Maccabees, etc. because they disagreed with their theology. Why not throw out James or Revelation while you are at it?

Luther did in his German bible. All of the early Christians believed in the canonicity of the books of the Maccabees, Tobit, Judith, etc.


44 posted on 10/28/2011 3:26:32 PM PDT by rzman21
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Protestants did follow the same canon UNTIL the Roundheads under Cromwell decided to remove those books THEY felt were not correct. The 1611 King James Version originally included the Apocrypha, etc.


202 posted on 10/30/2011 10:38:43 PM PDT by TexConfederate1861 (Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy.)
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