[patriot_wes]

"The Catholics redacted the New Testament and the Jewish scribes redacted the Old Testament. These are undisputed facts by all biblical experts."

Not true - the tenants of the faith had been established and submitted to the church long before the Catholic influence began corrupting the teachings of the Messiah.

The Jewish scribes translated the OT into the Septuagint long before Jesus' time. All of the very first converts to the new covenant were Jewish even three thousand in one day on the day of Shavuot (Pentecost) in Acts 2.

Dan Brown's book is bunk and I wouldn't want to be in his shoes when he faces the Master on the day of reckoning.

[Pyro7480]

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[MHGinTN]

Oh my, now you've done it. The poster wanted ALL biblical scholars in agreement (with him) and you had to take that bauble away from the poster.

[sully777]

1) Canonization was completed by the mid 400's AD (CE). It was accepted as canon by the Holy Roman Catholic Church of God. The Apocrypha is considered holy writ by the RCs but is expelled by Protestants as non-inspired history or legend. (As a side note: Jesus Christ observed Hanukkah (Feast of Lights) throughout his lifetime. Yet, there is no such festival listed in the redacted Old Testament. The only mention of such a feast is in the Maccabees. It follows that the Apocrypha should be included on that fact alone; yet, Protestant theologians overlook such points.)

2) The Septuagint text competed with the Masoretic text. Orthodox Jews consider the Sept. a substandard text because of scribal errors in translating Aramaic, Chaldean and Hebrew into Greek. Nonetheless, canonization of the OT was completed by the Jewish authorities regardless of which translation was favored. Some books discussed for non-inclusion include Esther and Song of Songs.

3) Your point on Jewish converts is a nonsensical red herring when dealing with the fact that the gnostic texts were used by the writers of the Old and New Testament. The so-called gnostic texts were then discarded through systematic redaction by scribes and catholic authorities.

4) Dan Brown's salvation or lack of salvation, last time I read the Bible, is none of your concern.

These continue to be undisputed by all biblical experts except point#4.