If one can demonstrate that Jesus and His inspired Apostles bequeathed the Deuterocanon to the Church as inspired Scripture, the case is made. There's no need to jump through arbitrary hoops or anything like that. For the Christian, the question is settled. And that is precisely the path that we will follow in this work, namely, to demonstrate that the Deuterocanon was an authentic part of the original deposit of Scriptures bequeathed to the Church by Christ and His Apostles.
