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By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:03:49 +0000

Joel,
Personal gain is a good question. If you read the accounts of the followers of Jesus, there’s a lot of stupid, ignorant, foolish, mean things that they say and do. Peter was one of the leaders of the early church and the Roman Catholic church traced their authority through him. But consider some of things recorded about him:

“Don’t wash my feet Jesus!” Jn 13:8
“I’ll ALWAYS follow you Jesus!” Jn 13:38
Chops off a servant’s ear Jn 18:10
Denies Jesus 3 times John 18:17,25,27

These passages and others suggest that embarassing material was left in and there wasn’t censoring to clean up the sayings and actions of the early church leaders.

By: Joel

Joel — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:29:23 +0000

There is a book that I saw in Barnes and noble the other day called “The year of living Biblically” i am going to check it out, it looks real funny. I read a few pages and really in saw in this book what Paul was talking about in Romans. The the law is there to show us that there is no way we can do this on our own, we are too screwed up. Also I get a lot of questions about the canonization of the bible, and how do I know that thsoe are the divine writings. The book of Thomas always comes up and all I can do is laugh and then ask “have you ever read any of those books” they are ridiculous.

My question is, is there enough evidence that the canonization of the bible was done without personal gain in mind? and how much faith do we have to put into believing that God chose those books?

By: Mark sung

Mark sung — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:03:59 +0000

Also,

Another great one for understanding “Other Writings” or “Gospels” that were not included in the cannon is called “The Missing Gospels” by Brock. It was made by a recent scholar that is very easily to read but it’s not as dense as my previous recommendation by F.F. Bruce. However, it is more recent in data since Frederick Fyvie past aways a while ago.

Thanks.

By: Mark sung

Mark sung — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:58:26 +0000

Hey Larry,

If you’re wondering about canonization of the Bible, you can find help in “The Canon of Scripture” by F.F. Bruce. It’s rather exhaustive and very non-biased on how the Bible was compiled to what we have today. Though I think the OT documents by Kaiser is great as well for the OT scriptures.

Thanks.

By: Larry

Larry — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:44:18 +0000

This is one topic I really questioned myself for some time; I appreciate the information. I have a bit of high level understanding on the process that determined the books of the current Bible, but maybe one of these resources will provide some additional clarity–Thanks