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To: taxcontrol

The Jewish Council of Jamnia doesn’t concern Christians. In fact it was anti-Christian in nature.

The Jews rejected the Septuagint because Christians used it. I might add that several deuterocanonical books have been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls that predate Jamnia.

You are mistaken. The Council of Trullo was accepted by Pope John VIII in the 9th century, and its canons were regarded as ecumenical save those regarding priestly celibacy and Saturday fasting.


99 posted on 11/02/2011 1:25:30 PM PDT by rzman21
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Actually I am not mistaken. Pope Sergius I was the one who rejected the Council of Trullo. He was the sitting Pope at the time of the Council. Pope John VIII did not become Pope until 872 some 180 years AFTER the Council.

The simple fact is the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) does not include the deuterocanonical books. Protestants do not include them as scripture because:

1) their authorship is unknown and none of the books claim to be inspired works.
2) there are doctrines in the deuterocanonical books that are at odds with the New Testament, such as salvation by works (Ecclesiasticus 3:30) and magic (Tobit 6:5-8)
3) Jesus never quoted from the Apocrypha
4) further, none of the Apocryphal books are quoted in the New Testament at all (yet the Tanakh is quoted from in many places.

109 posted on 11/02/2011 1:49:04 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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