Recent content by M-Paul

Francis, You have demonstrated again and again and again, that you are not capable of honest discussion on this issue.

Wextexas, OK, the Jamnia decision reviewed the canon and only decided that no changes should be made. What the Jews hold today as the Hebrew bible reflects the canon at the time of Christ and also establishes the lexicographical meaning of Christ's words. I have reviewed before that the...

For anyone else that is interested -- the question arises, how do we know that the phrases Christ or the NT uses confirming Scripture refer to the OT completely. Again, this is a question in lexicography. Zondervan Encyclopedia (which I have close at hand now) has eight pages of tiny print to...

Your response is another straw man argument, except this time you truly have gone even further into the realm of the absolutely ridiculous. It is not the Jews who establish the lexicographical definition. How the Jews used words and phrases and what meaning they gave to them are determined by...

MM, Even though I have not read the book you reference, I am familiar with the theory it sets out in general. I do not agree with how advocates of this theory determine facts of history. For instance, in the dating of documents -- too much is based on too little evidence. However, this is...

I have not. However, I just now found a complete copy of it on line. I quickly looked at some pages. This appears to be written from a liberal view point that does not admit to divine inspiration. In other words, liberals use a completely different method of interpretation based on certain...

I have posted repeatedly, that the significance of the Jewish position is lexicographical, not conciliar, that the authority is Scripture not the Jews. You respond as if I never stated what I already have. This is another form of a straw man argument and a manner of setting the train of thought...

Francis, You are a troll!!! You post in this forum with a set agenda. This thread was too contrary to your agenda, and you set out to harass and derail the conversation with endless straw mans, constant personal attacks, always setting the train of thought into a state of confusion in order to...

I don't think this is the first Protestant review of the canon. However, this position is merely repeating one from the early centuries of Christianity and continuing. The LXX in Greek was popular and relied on as inspired in north Africa, but church authorities immediately recognized problems...

Francis, You never respond honestly to anything. I've never said I've proven my point. I said I set out the Protestant position, that I answered your questions. Everything you post is a straw man argument. And when I note a straw man on your part, and state my true position, you respond with a...

Francis, I had noted early in the thread, that I have never known a Catholic who actually knows about the Protestant position on canon **even among those for whom it has been explained in detail.** I think one of two things are going on – 1. You (and Dad also for that matter) cannot...

Dad, you are not reading the thread. The answers to your questions have been answered repeatedly. I think you cannot understand my meaning as you do not want to. I have set it out again and again.

Francis, you are responding from lulu land!!! I noted I had constantly posted on defining a list of what are the writings Christ referenced, to explain the comment of one of my prior posts for setting out what that list is, and to explain how your ignoring what I said to merely say we do not...

Dad, You just are not reading the thread. Jesus upholds the OT as the inspired writings of God, or as canon. The question is what books was he referring to. This is established by lexicography, or what is the dictionary definition. The Jamnia decision indicates clearly what books these were...

Francis, The bulk of my participation in this thread has been on the issue of the NT establishing the canon of the OT through the words of Jesus Christ. I noted the importance of a dictionary definition for his references to the OT, which in essence constitutes a list of the books. In my last...