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***Well doc, that is a bit of an attempt to throw me off topic because I have already said that there is too much to cover. I would have to go and read the references for me to give you a list of which doctrine is taught where.***

First, you asked me for my comment on your post.

I replied to you that the article indicates there are doctrines (PLURAL) that Protestants were trying to avoid. The article only mentioned one issue prayer for the dead-purgatory and one passage consisting of four verses. I question the author's credibility at this key point and accusation. I asked for other examples.

If we are talking about four verses and one topic, fine just say so. If not, at least list the other key Catholic doctrines being avoided and maybe someone can help with the verses. Or list three other doctrines, or four to get the list started.

This is certainly not a moot point or a dodge on my part. The article made a claim that I think may well give the impression that there are many verses that Protestant reject because they disagree with doctrine contained.

Is that true? Or is it this doctrine and these four verses?

Indeed, I did ask you for commentary, but you want me to go back through the books and list what doctrine is taught where, and that is not a task I am capable of in one sitting. That is why I asked you to stay on what the author covers.

Obviously, the apostles referred repeatedly and often to the septuagint. What is contained within them was considered valuable enough that they were included in the OT until the Martin Luther came and axed them, and even then he used them as an appendix.

I tell you what. I will go and search around and come up with some other examples of doctrine Akin is referring to so we can proceed with your question. In the meantime, why do you think Luther axed Maccabees and why, if these 7 books were acceptable to the apostles, are they not acceptable to protestants?

Dan. 1:6-7 is a reference to Peter. Christ was not given to meaningless gestures, and neither were the Jews as a whole when it came to names. Giving a new name meant that the status of the person was changed, as when Abram’s name was changed to Abraham (Gen.17:5), Jacob’s to Israel (Gen. 32:28), Eliakim’s to Joakim (2 Kgs. 23:34), or the names of the four Hebrew youths—Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah to Belteshazzar, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (Dan. 1:6-7). But no Jew had ever been called "Rock."

And on indulgences, (Dan. 12:2).

I have already put up the one on purgatory. I am too lazy to look up the one on women priests.