@Anquiroveritas@BishopJaxi@mannymunoz77 Josephus’ 22 = the 24-book Tanakh, same books, different count. That’s the Hebrew canon Christ and the apostles used. Your “later Rabbinic” dodge is pure cope. The apocrypha never made it, little misinformed buddy.
@Anquiroveritas@BishopJaxi@mannymunoz77 Jesus affirmed the closed Hebrew canon (Lk 24:44; Mt 23:35, Abel to Zechariah). Josephus confirms 22 books fixed long before 70 AD. Palestinian jews never accepted the apocrypha as Scripture. No pre-Christian fixed wider canon existed. History refutes you.
@BishopJaxi@mannymunoz77 The apostles never handed us a numbered list of books either yet WE know the canon. Scripture is self-attesting by the Spirit. Your cope for one early source listing every name and number just shows rome’s need for an infallible referee. You’re arguing like a mormon or muslim.
@Anquiroveritas@BishopJaxi@mannymunoz77 First of all, you’re mistaken. It’s 39 books, not 30. Jesus affirmed the closed Hebrew canon in Luke 24:44 and Matt 23:35. Josephus confirms it long before 70 AD. Palestinian Jews used it. You wrote pure historical fiction.
@LindaHConley13 The roman church didn’t “give” us Christians the Bible; God-breathed Scripture was recognized by the early church long before Damasus. You added the apocrypha in the 1500s and still baptize infants with zero NT warrant. Every biblical baptism follows faith. Tradition ≠ Scripture