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If a catholic calls you a "Protestant," it is worth noting (humbly) that
Baptists are not Protestants, because Protestants left the catholic church, but
Baptists were never in it, because Baptists were around before the catholic

church started. (They were not always called "Baptists" but their doctrine is
traceable back to New Testament times. The formation of the catholic cult
however began much later and was very gradual and disjointed.) Catholics
won't let you argue this point long, but it doesn't help your credibility if you
appear to concede that "we used to be in the catholic church."

THE CANON

Many frustrated catholics will downplay scripture's authority by claiming the
catholic church "compiled" the Bible (being "above it") and decided which
books belong in it (the canon). This claim is absurd for several reasons.

1. The catholic bible's extra Old Testament books (which were adopted in
the same Council of Carthage as the New Testament books) are rejected by
the Jews, to whom God committed the Old Testament scriptures. (Romans

3:1-2)

2. The most acclaimed catholic Greek New Testament manuscripts
(Sinaiticus and Vaticanus) contain apocryphal books that not even the
catholic bible includes.

3. Within the Bible itself there is evidence to support the canonicity of all 39
Old Testament books and at least 20 of the 27 New Testament books.

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." Jesus here referred to all 3 sections of the 39
books of our Old Testament (which are cited frequently in the New
Testament as "scripture") but didn't mention the catholic O.T. apocryphal

books.