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Yet it is not "me" that has done anything, really. I'm just the messenger, and at that -- only one of many. I did not need rely upon my own arguments -- and neither did Webster. All he had to do was bring out the information form ECF's, and that did all the work, though Webster (and others) did assemble it into cognitive form, and did provide extensive footnotes for his work, all along the way. He should get credit for that.

You get credit for taking the time to yet again present the facts. Sometimes when Webster or others have been used to demolish the RC arguments for "their" canon - and they certainly DO, their defense was to attack Webster and the others as "former Catholics", "poorly catechized", "bitter anti-Catholics", etc., etc.. Instead of addressing the arguments proffered, they try to kill the messengers of the messengers. Doesn't seem to ever change.

I've been wondering why RC "apologetes" get the FRoman's full faith and credit which they then ape as if the battle has been already won without any contentions, when these RC defenders prove just as inadequate to counter the truthful arguments. When we are directed to go to a link for the proof that will convince us we are wrong, we find the SAME bogus and lame arguments that just got defeated! Do they not even read?

I think what is really going on is some have made a stand that their church is never in error, therefore, if "they" say the Apocryphal books belong in the "Bible", then they just do and we have to accept it and stop trying to fight against the church Jesus "instituted". It doesn't matter that there wasn't any unanimous consent of the fathers concerning these books or even that up until Trent there was no official, no-more-discussion-you-guys ruling that was binding upon all to be believed, ALL that matters now is the magesterium has decreed it and you can't question it anymore. A pitiful defense, I know. I have a sneaking suspicion that they included knowingly uninspired and errant books in with the universally recognized ones in order to place the Catholic church ABOVE the word of God

So, that is what we are up against all these times we enter the fray over what is the Bible. I don't think it should be a reason for us NOT to continue to defend the real Bible - some people will be reasonable and able to reason and what we do is give them the facts to make up their own minds. Some people can learn.