“Canonization” is not divine “inspiration.” Divine inspiration refers only to the writing of Scripture.
Canon = list of approved books, to consider which books your bible contain today had to be inspired by the Holy Spirit to be the Word of God, not by men, God used the Catholic Church as his instrument to Canonize them for all the world, and I dont doubt your VERSION of the Bible is not inspired, it just does not contain the full canon of scripture that the Holy Spirit through the Catholic Church approved to be inspired of God. For the exception of the word “only” that Luther added to the book of Romans, how he got authorization to do such a thing to add his own word “only” to God’s inspired word is beyond me.
Here’s the quote directly from the Jewish historian Josephus. He considered the Jewish O.T. canon fixed from the days of Artaxerxes, the time of Ezra:"We have but 22 books, containing the history of all time, books that are believed to be divine. Of these, 5 belong to Moses, containing his laws and the traditions of the origin of mankind down to the time of his death. From the death of Moses to the reign of Artaxerxes the prophets who succeeded Moses wrote the history of the events that occurred in their own time, in 13 books. The remaining 4 books comprise hymns to God and precepts for the conduct of human life. From the days of Artaxerxes to our own times every event has indeed been recorded, but these recent records (referring to the Apocrypha) have not been deemed worthy of equal credit which those which preceded them, on account of the failure of the exact succession of prophets. There is practical proof of the spirit in which we treat our Scriptures; for, although so great an interval of time has now passed, not a soul has ventured to add or to remove or to alter a syllable; and it is the instinct of every Jew, from the day of his birth, to consider these Scriptures as the teaching of God, and to abide by them, and, if need be, cheerfully lay down his life in their behalf."His testimony as to the Jewish canon of Scripture is of no small value. His words are unquestionable testimony to the belief of the Jewish nation of Jesus’ day as to what Books comprised the Hebrew Scriptures.
When did Josephus write this? Dont forget in his time many writings went out that were accredited to a famous author yet written by another. Was this written before 100 ad or after just curious? in any case this clause does not prove or disprove the belief system by the Jewish people about the Angel Raphael.
