As you understand what?
You think this is a problem?
Cop, I would like you to take your infallible Catholic, verified scripture and open it to Isaiah 53 then compare it to this
1’Who would have believed our report? And to whom hath the arm of HaShem been revealed?
2For he shot up right forth as a sapling, and as a root out of a dry ground; he had no form nor comeliness, that we should look upon him, nor beauty that we should delight in him.
3He was despised, and forsaken of men, a man of pains, and acquainted with disease, and as one from whom men hide their face: he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4Surely our diseases he did bear, and our pains he carried; whereas we did esteem him stricken, smitten of G-d, and afflicted.
5But he was wounded because of our transgressions, he was crushed because of our iniquities: the chastisement of our welfare was upon him, and with his stripes we were healed.
6All we like sheep did go astray, we turned every one to his own way; and HaShem hath made to light on him the iniquity of us all.
7He was oppressed, though he humbled himself and opened not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before her shearers is dumb; yea, he opened not his mouth.
8By oppression and judgment he was taken away, and with his generation who did reason? for he was cut off out of the land of the living, for the transgression of my people to whom the stroke was due.
9And they made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich his tomb; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.’
10Yet it pleased HaShem to crush him by disease; to see if his soul would offer itself in restitution, that he might see his seed, prolong his days, and that the purpose of HaShem might prosper by his hand:
11Of the travail of his soul he shall see to the full, even My servant, who by his knowledge did justify the Righteous One to the many, and their iniquities he did bear.
12Therefore will I divide him a portion among the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the mighty; because he bared his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Except for the substitution of HaShem for Lord I’m willing to bet that they are almost identical. The difference is that what I have reproduced here was taken directly from the Isaiah scroll of the dead sea scrolls written approximately 125BC. So if you are saying that these scrolls cannot be verified as scripture, you are saying that the bible you read also cannot be verified. Doesn’t that leave you in a very precarious position
The Masoretic text and the Catholic OT agree even to the inclusion of the deuterocanoncals. So again if you reject one you reject both and are left without the Word.
This guy isn’t disagreeing with anything I have said
“Meanwhile, in summary, we may tentatively conclude that while the men of Qumran recognized the authority of all the main books of the Old Testament”
What he does say is that “we do not know what they thought of some of the smaller ones”
And I really don’t care what the essenes thought about the books they copied. The irrefutable fact is that these writing were in existence long before any council of the Catholic church, long before any verification process of the Catholic or Protestant churches. They are consistant with the canon that we now read and contrary to your statement above do confirm that the OT that we read today is the same as the one Jesus read and in fact gave to the world.
If Protestants that follow the OT canon are following doctrines of men and you are following the OT canon of the CC, you also are following the doctines of men also./QUOTE]
In your opinion, may you remain in Christ.
