Why Protestant Bibles Are Smaller

[angel12]

It was not meant to be “uncharitable” nor meant to go against CAF guidelines. It context it was a response to the “uncharitable” comment about having a “low opinion” about the author of the book & the level of scholarship, which was based on the words of Jesus in the NT, as well as from Jimmy Akin from Catholic Answers.

There’s a big difference between having a low opinion of an author’s scholarship – which anyone is allowed to have – and accusing people of having a low opinion of the words of Jesus & St. Paul. That is a direct and deliberate attack on people’s faith.

 

[AmbroseSJ]

So, when AmbroseSJ stated he had a “low opinion” of the scholarship of the author & the book, the “scholarship” from the book was taken directly from the words of Jesus from Scripture.

It is those leaps of logic which cause you problems.

Your pet author is also guilty of those leaps of logic. (assuming you have represented him correctly.)

Don’t you think if there was ANYTHING in them, Luther and Protestants would have used this justification for their canon from the beginning? But NO. They have always argued that because they are not part of the Hebrew Bible (The Masoretic one) AND because they are problematic for their doctrines, they justified purging them from the Protestant Bible. Neither Luther, Calvin, or any other reformer has EVER claimed that the Protestant canon is the EXACT ONE Jesus endorsed in the Gospels. That idea requires extreme inference (reading into something that just isn’t there,) leaps of logic, stretching and twisting of the text of the Bible (and history) to arrive at.

 

[Xarto]

Exactly 400AD we hadn’t split so why do the Orthodox recognise more books, shouldn’t have the same amount?

 

[RaisedCatholic]

There’s a big difference between having a low opinion of an author’s scholarship – which anyone is allowed to have – and accusing people of having a low opinion of the words of Jesus & St. Paul. That is a direct and deliberate attack on people’s faith.

Well that was not my intention. If it was taken that way, I apologize. All I was attempting to do was focus on the truth of the words of Jesus and St. Paul we all agree on. Sorry if how I worded it came out wrong.