To Christians who aren't creationists

[Aiza]

Using the expression "chucked out" assumes the very thing to be proved (which is illegitimate); in other words, to assert that a book was chucked out of the canon is to assert that it was originally part of the canon, and it will not do to simply assume the very thing to be proved.

I didn't realize it was under dispute. It was part of the Septuagint, which was in use by the earliest Christians, and was later translated in Latin and used by the Church.

Martin Luther took those books out and labelled them as "Apocrypha", suitable for pious readings but non-canonical. Eventually Protestants ended up going back to the Hebrew Bible in order to form their OTs, instead of using the Septuagint.

Also I was discussing things like Jesus stopping the stoning of a woman, a passage which some Protestant Bibles have removed as it isn't part of the "oldest manuscripts". It is, however, part of the oldest canons and is still considered canonical by the Church, as it always will be.

I don't think the Protestant approach is wrong, per se, and their work into translating directly from the Hebrew Bible and looking into finding the oldest surviving Gospel manuscripts has improved Scripture quality for Catholics as well. I just wonder where they might draw the line.