[OLD REGGIE]

"We don't hold to the traditions of men and you accuse us of relying on the words of men?"

Absolutely you do, beginning with the novelties of the Reformation including sola scriptura but not sola scriptura, and removing books from the Bible.

Adding books to the Bible by the RCC is similar to putting 23 gallons of gasoline in a 20 gallon tank. It makes a horrible mess and pollutes the environment.

The Jews and those dreaded "Protestants" simply kept the 20 gallons which only the Jews were authorized to put into the tank.

Romans 3:
[1] Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
[2] Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews are entrusted with the oracles of God.

[Iscool]

Excellent...

[MarkBsnr]

Adding books to the Bible by the RCC is similar to putting 23 gallons of gasoline in a 20 gallon tank. It makes a horrible mess and pollutes the environment.

Removing books from the Bible by Martin Luther and successive generations of Reformers is heretical and worthy of excommunication from the Church.

The Jews and those dreaded "Protestants" simply kept the 20 gallons which only the Jews were authorized to put into the tank.

The books were put into the Septuagint, which almost the entire Jewish nation world wide used. It was the anti Catholic Council of Jamnia 60 years after Jesus died, was resurrected and Ascended, that decided in reaction to the dreaded Christian cult springing up, that they would remove the Septuagint from consideration and went with the Hebrew OT.

The precedent is awful; not only Scripture can be modified by Martin Luther's any milkmaid, but so can the basic doctrines of Christianity.