I simply cannot accept Josephus as inerrant or completely authoritative when he is in conflict with the Early Church Fathers such as the Greek era St. Justin Martyr, St. Athanasius, St. Melito of Sardis, and Origen and the later Latin era Tertullian, St. Jerome and St. Augustine. I also do not accept an ex post facto closing of the Hebrew Canon in the late 2nd century done to address the Christian heresy.
Like the last 600 years of Christian history Catholics are going to maintain the orthodoxy of the Apostolic Tradition and Protestants are going to argue a heterodoxy. I also do not accept any arguments that either Protestants or Catholics cannot know and love Jesus because of differences in doctrine.
“I also do not accept any arguments that either Protestants or Catholics cannot know and love Jesus because of differences in doctrine. “
On that, we agree.