3 Questions for Protestants

This isn’t nearly as deep as you seem to believe it is.

Are you being serious? This is where you are now? Lol

1. Yes 2. Idk, maybe Paul or James. It was likely written as a sermon to be spoken in Church. 3. Because it is apostolic.

1. Yes. 2. Don't know, but God inspired it. 3. It's in the Bible because God ordained His people to put it in there.

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1. Yes 2. A Person Inspired By The Spirit(most believe Paul) 3. Because God Revealed It To His People...The Church. You for real bro?

There are a number of anonymous books in the OT, too. What Pope or Catholic council declared Chronicles to be canon before 500 BC?

@mattjhedges11 no more reformed “Catholics”

Meanwhile, according to the Council of Trent, Hebrews is one of Paul’s epistles.

1. Yes. 2. We dont know for certain. 3. Because it's inspired by the Holy Spirt

St Paul wrote Hebrews. This was not disputed until modern times.

1.) Yes 2.) Most likely Paul. 3.) Because it is doctrinally, theologically, and logically tied to all Scripture. Was that supposed to be hard? Are you trolling?

What is the therefore on this? This doesn’t come close to making Catholics a true church. If it can be called a church.

Only pigs feast on slop like this

1) Yes. 2) His name rhymes with Saul. It may have been collated by Luke from the Apostle's sermons to Jews about the superiority of Christ. But it was Paul's theology. (And a distinct pen writing what Paul said is NOT new in the NT.) 3) B/c Scripture is self-attesting.

Who wrote the book of Job? Doesn’t mean we discount it from the Bible because we don’t know the author. This is laughable.

1. Yes. 2. The Holy Spirit. The human author is not known with absolute certainty, and that does not matter. Having said that I would (fallibly) attribute the inspired penman to the Apostle Paul. Hebrews 13:23 mentions Timothy; the theological depth on Christ’s high priesthood, the new covenant, and the superiority of the Melchizedekian order is thoroughly consistent with Pauline thought. Canonization does not require us to settle the penman’s identity before receiving the book. Inspiration is the work of the Holy Spirit (2 Pet. 1:21; 2 Tim. 3:16). The same Spirit who inspired Moses, the prophets, and the apostles can (and did) inspire a document whose human author remains anonymous to us. Just as He did with Judges, many of the Psalms, and portions of the historical books. Anonymity of the human instrument does not diminish divine authorship. 3. We receive Hebrews as canonical for the same reasons we receive the rest of the New Testament: it bears the divine qualities of Scripture, accords with the apostolic deposit, and is received as God’s Word through the testimony of the Holy Spirit. The churches did not make Hebrews canonical or confer authority upon it. They recognized and received the authority it already possessed from God.

1. Yes 2. I don't know. 3. Because it is theologically valuable and consistent with the gospels and Paul.

1) Yes. 2) Nobody knows now. 3) The early church accepted it as inspired scripture. This church did not venerate icons and saints or worship Mary in case you wanted clarification on which church.

Many Psalms are anonymous. Roughly one third of the Psalter carries no superscription naming an author. Prominent examples include Psalm 1, Psalm 2, Psalm 10, Psalm 33, Psalm 43, Psalm 71, Psalm 91, Psalms 93 to 97, Psalm 99, Psalms 104 to 106, Psalms 111 to 118, and many of the Songs of Ascents in Psalms 120 to 134. The absence of a named human author has never hindered the people of God from receiving these Psalms as the inspired Word of God. Their authority does not rest on our knowledge of the penman. It rests on the Holy Spirit who breathed them out. Soli Deo gloria.

1st question = rhetorical. 2nd question = Doesn't matter who wrote it, not to us at least. Certainly did to those who adopted it for regular use, back in the day. 3rd question = See answer 2; also, the theology coheres with the rest of the canon.

1. Yes. 2. Paul the Apostle/Barnabas? 3.Because the Holy Spirit inspired fallen creatures to Write it and Put it together in the Theopneustos Scriptures as Apostle Paul says in 2 Timothy 3:16. You should read your Bible more instead of your RCC...

Who wrote the book of Job? Why is it in the Bible? “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not pass away” Matthew 24:35

That's an odd question. If the Catholic Magesterium doesn't need to know who authored Hebrews to recognize it as canon, Protestants likewise do not need to know who authored Hebrews to recognize it as canon.

The people who fail to see the significance of a series of questions like these are often the same people who reduce Christianity to something exceedingly thin. For them, the perceived veridicality of their religious experience is sufficient, even if it carries only a minimal set of theological commitments. That’s a coherent position, but suppose Christianity is actually far richer and more robust than that. If so, then reducing it to the bare minimum means missing out on much of what the Christian faith, and in particular, Catholicism and Orthodoxy have to offer, not merely in practice, but in truth, doctrine, worship, and communion with God.

Paul is the likely author. Aside from his writing style and display of knowledge, he is the only author in the New Testament who mentioned Timothy, and he is refrenced in Heb 13:23. We also don’t know who wrote Job, Judges, Esther, and others. God inspired the scriptures.

Who wrote Joshua? Who wrote Job? Authorship is not required to be identified as scripture.

Why is 3rd question hard ? Holy Spirit is behind the creation of scripture and putting together the canon. Or is there a person who claims that it was merely mans operation ?

For those of us who have seen your journey...and predicted where it was leading...you come across as a slimy grifter. I can't tell if you truly believe anything. You come across very insincere.

These questions have been throughly answered in the comments. Now here’s one for you: What authority did early Christians have to treat these Scriptures as inspired before any council decreed them to be so?

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Further proof that you were only a Protestant grifter

1. Yes. 2. It was probably Paul but I also wouldn’t be surprised if it was Priscilla and Aquila, but we have no way of knowing for sure nor is it especially relevant to the content of the epistle. 3. Because it’s clearly inspired Scripture.

The church recognizes God’s Word; it does not make God’s Word God’s Word.

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