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To: Mrs. Don-o
Let’s look at that first point, that the words of Scripture explicitly pass on authority to a divine institution, namely to the Church instituted by our divine Lord Jesus Christ. The authority of the Church to "bind and loose," the authority to determine "whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; whose sins you shall retain, they are retained";

Naw, those things weren't passed on to an institution...They were intended for the people they were presented to...Nothing in the scriptures says they were to be passed on...They also are for a specific Kingdom...

Rabbi Akiva and the other Rabbis associated with his school, notably Rabbi Meir, Judah ben Ilai, Simeon bar Yohai, Jose ben Halafta, Eleazar ben Shammai, and Rabbi Nehemiah, wished to “purify” the Jewish OT canon from the influences of the early Christian Church. The Christians used the LXX OT canon very effectively throughout the Hellenic Mediterranean world to gain converts; Rabbi Akiva and his pupil and translator, Aquila of Sinope, wished to curb that by delegitimizing the LXX and promoting a shortened and revised, de-Christianized text for use in Jewish synagogues.

Most of your earliest church fathers used language which was consistent with Masoretic Texts which the KJV is derived from...

There is no evidence incidentally that a mysterious LXX existed before Origen showed up...Even then, you have to take the word of Eusebius who was likely the author of the LXX...

God said he (not the Catholic religion) would preserve his words forever...There aren't enough Catholic manuscripts to fulfill the task...And what few there are disagree with each other in over 3000 places...And there are zero texts that reference the origin of all of the Catholic traditions...I'll stick with the Masoretic Texts and it derivatives...

434 posted on 02/28/2013 5:02:41 PM PST by Iscool (I love animals...barbequed, fried, grilled, stewed,,,,)
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To: Iscool
There is no evidence incidentally that a mysterious LXX existed before Origen showed up...Even then, you have to take the word of Eusebius who was likely the author of the LXX...

Ask and Ethiopian Jew about that, Go ahead I dare you to tell him that his canon didn't exist before Jesus.

BTW how is that evidence coming about Simon Magus? Still scrambling for it.

And i still have that CD I offered you from Tim Staples on how reading the Bible made him Catholic. Why have you refused to tell me where to send it to you?

435 posted on 02/28/2013 5:31:12 PM PST by verga (A nation divided by Zero!)
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