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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (10324)	2/9/2002 2:46:29 AM
From: Mitch Blevins	Respond to of 28931

>>Some books made it and some did not. The ones that did passed all the tests, and the ones that didn't make it did not. There is no big mystery there. Some were thrown out because they did not have Apostolic authorship or sanction. Others were rejected for other reasons, So what? The fact is God superintended the compilation process as much as He did the actual writings. Cannonicity was discovered, not bestowed. A book is Scripture, because it is God inspired, literally "God breathed", not for any other reason.<< How do we know that the books in the canon are inspired? -- God "superintended" the compilation to ensure that it is so. If we define books as inspired based on their having made it into a canon, then calling the books in that canon "inspired" is nothing more than a tautology. If the Shepherd of Hermas has made it into the canon, then poof it would be inspired. And why would God superintend different canons for the large christian sects of the united states or world population? Why do catholics have a different canon than the protestants? Did God guide this wonderfully confusing state of affairs? Is their something about your canon that makes you think it is more God-superintended than the catholic version? Tell me this... Why do the "inspired" books of the canon quote apocrypha and other "non-inspired" books? Why would inspired scripture need to rely on what turns out (because God showed us by keeping them out of the canon) to be nothing more than feel-good fiction? Jude 14-16 quotes Enoch (1:9) Hebrews 1:3 quotes the Wisdom of Solomon 7:25-26 James 1:19 is from Ecclesiasticus 5:11 Also, note that most of Jesus' quotes of the Old Testament in the gospels follows the LXX, which contain the apocrypha. So either Jesus or the New Testament writers felt that these uninspired books to be scripture. [ramble mode: off] -Mitch