Three Reasons to join the Eastern Orthodox Church

[RJB]

LOL The good thing about Sola is not his honesty, sincerity, or intellectual powers-for these he lacks-but he does challenge me to prove what I know and sharpen my skills by virtue of his antagonism and amazing ignorance. God bless him.

True. He has prompted me to pray more in the last few days for both wisdom and patience. God does have a reason for all his creation no matter how mysterious it appears to us.

[Sola_Fide]

Part IV
Well, glad we could put this controversy to bed. y/w, everyone!

Whoa whoa whoa. Your copy paste did not prove your assertion, that the Jews of Jesus time accepted the duetero books as canonical. There was not one Jew on that list. You can't prove that because it is not able to be proven. The Jews did not accept those books as canonical.

As for your list, there were churchmen who quoted from those books, but many of them that did were completely unaware that the Jews did not regard those books as canonical. They didn't read or write Hebrew and they simply quoted from the books because they were included in compilations in a codex.

Thirdly, your copy paste list is full of inconsistency, because although you quote where a churchman used a quote from a duetero book, you didn't also mention where that churchman didn't accept the canonicity of the book. There are several on that list like that.

[pcosmar]

The Jews did not accept those books as canonical.

Correction. SOME Jews did not accept them..

There were dozens if not hundreds of sects.

They were accepted by the early church and by men that had walked with Christ..

There were some in the banning books days,, that wanted to ban more..

But I am convinced that errors had already begun before there were conventions..
I believe it even likely that a good many Christians were killed by the heretics who were called christians.
And the reformation gets even more bloody confused.

but,, that will all come out later

[euphemia]

But in the meantime we are losing the friendliness and intimacy of our discussion because we waste time and energy addressing interruptions.

[pcosmar]

But in the meantime we are losing the friendliness and intimacy of our discussion because we waste time and energy addressing interruptions.

As happens,, but hb did post an epic amount of history,, and that was cool.

and his point had been clearly made half way through the first level.

Educational history is always better when it's entertaining.

[heavenlyboy34]

Correction. SOME Jews did not accept them..

There were dozens if not hundreds of sects.

They were accepted by the early church and by men that had walked with Christ..

There were some in the banning books days,, that wanted to ban more..

But I am convinced that errors had already begun before there were conventions..
I believe it even likely that a good many Christians were killed by the heretics who were called christians.
And the reformation gets even more bloody confused.

but,, that will all come out later

Indeed, brother. Heretics and schismatics have tried to infiltrate the Church and divide Her from early on. (Marcionists, etc)

[heavenlyboy34]

As happens,, but hb did post an epic amount of history,, and that was cool.

and his point had been clearly made half way through the first level.

Educational history is always better when it's entertaining.

Thanks. I like to share and chat about this stuff because it's one of my great interests.

[heavenlyboy34]

But in the meantime we are losing the friendliness and intimacy of our discussion because we waste time and energy addressing interruptions.

Indeed. Thanks, btw, for being one of the civil ones around here in both general contribution and debate. ~hugs~