Thanks Leolaia. I will check that book. I also need to say that, yes, I was taught that the canon had been decided at Nicaea, and have learned, through Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus, that it was certainly not so. And I know very well that there are different canons, because I used to be a Catholic and we have some books Protestants don't. And some paragraphs of the book of Daniel that Protestant's don't, either.
A book on how the Bible canon was decided upon?
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Scarred for life
Thanks, Terry. I just ordered "Who Wrote the Bible" on Amazon.
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Terry
Terry,
I'm just in the process of learning all of that!
2 things:
1. I am wondering, too, what qualified these people above others to decide Bible canon. Because it seems some of their decisions to include or not include certain books were motivated more by political desires and wanting to keep control of the "laity".
2. Why wasn't I taught this as a Witness?
Deciding the bible canon was like being a little bit pregnant. How could you get the MAJORITY of people to accept a canon if it ended up being different from what they ALREADY believed? Well, it wasn't worth the fight! The church fathers fought about everything and allowed the public opinion over a long period of time to sway them!
We weren't taught anything as a Witness that was historically sound in a COMPLETE and HONEST way!
We were spoon-fed FILTERED information which conformed to a preconceived theology.
I might editorialize: this is the same method the Early Church used in creating an orthodoxy!