Why it is that so many Catholics simply blithely parrot the same polemics that have been so often abundantly shown - including to you - to be dubious assertions in vainly attempting to exalt theor church as the supreme authority over Scripture?
Do you need to see such again?
Why do non Christians like dan simply parrot the same nonsensical anti Christian propaganda as in your posts,
Your polemics and long posts of fluff prove only that you can type.
To your many references of Canonicty – its just all circular. You discount the historical fluidity of the Jewish canon through the generations and among the differing sects as not worthy of discussions. Then we learn of these Essenes who were quite separated from the Hellenistic Jews and we learn more of what was not known – or could be known – only assumed.
We agree- what ever Jamina was- did not finalize a Jewish canon – Canonicity –Authoritative Authenticity as regarded by the various Jewish sects – you have to pick a specific point in history to accomplish what Luther did- and that is purely subjectivism.
All your citations just point to one big circularly referential mess…. I could offer you the same amount of citations refuting those claims just as easily as well. WHO is right then ? It becomes purely subjective down through the centuries on the who decides canonical validity. Is one man better than councils or hundreds of years acceptance?