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If you won't listen to Scripture NOTHING will save you!

You better be listening to something besides scripture, and you obviously are, because otherwise you don't know which books belong in scripture and which books don't. Scripture doesn't tell you.

***You better be listening to something besides scripture***

Your argument is not with me, friend, but with Jesus. I was simply paraphrasing him.

"He said to him,
If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead."

"You better be listening to something besides scripture, and you obviously are, because otherwise you don't know which books belong in scripture and which books don't. Scripture doesn't tell you."

If we look at the Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bible there are only differences in the OT. The Catholic Bible contains the Apocrypha, while the Protestant does not. Now we may ask who is right? The answer to this can be found in the words of Jesus in the NT.

Matthew 5:17 - Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Matthew 26:56 - But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.

Luke 16:29 - Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

Luke 24:27 - And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

Luke 24:44 - And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.

So Jesus and the Bible clearly refer to the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms (or the Writings). Now what comprises these?

Romans 3
1 Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?
2 Great in every respect. First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

So then we see that the Jews were entrusted with the Oracles of God. Therefore, whatever they have as Scripture would be official canon. The Jewish Holy Scriptures (our OT) do not contain the Apocrypha, meaning it is not Scripture. The Bible alone has verified this.

JM