Valletta
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As I said, there was no one Jewish canon. The Apostles used the Greek Septuagint to teach from, and that is why the Catholic Church chose the Septuagint for their OT source when selecting text for the OT portion of the Bible. The Catholic Church existed before one word of the NT was written. There were differences in the readings at masses, and the Catholic Church set out to determine what was God-breathed text. The process spanned centuries, the first historical list of the NT books, in the very same order we use today, was credited to Saint Athanasius in the mid 300s. The Catholic Church officially gave the world the 73 books of the Bible in the late 300s, the same books we use today.Josephus "came up" with the statement that the canon was already in the temple - and had been there for over 400 years - and the Jews all knew it. So it was not just "a list" but rather an artifact actually in the temple for that period of time that he was referencing.
What is more "these Jews" - that wrote the NT and their readers have a Hebrew Bible that references what the Bible writers called "all the scriptures"
The Catholic Church showed up "late" to the party. By then the NT text was already written and the Jews of Christ day already heard him teach "from all the scriptures" according to the Bible writers themselves. That means not only could the Catholic church not write the OT - they also had no control over the Jews of Christ day listening to Him preach 'from all the scriptures" to defined for them - what that was.
These facts of history appear to be irrefutable.
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