Hi all,
What prompted this post was mentioned by CPiolo in the earlier thread ``The Organization Behind the Name.''
For all the Bible thumping that goes on here and in other quarters among the religiously inclined, seldom does any awareness of the controversial origins of the Bible as we know it come to the surface.
The volume we call the Bible emerged from the wranglings of clerics whose job it was to settle matters once for all time. All of these, or course, fit the current JW definition of apostate Christendom; seldom were their choices for inclusion unanimous; several, including the book of Rvelation, squeaked through on the slimmest of of majorities, others were excluded by margins equally fine.
While wishing not to denigrate the Bible or those for whom it is THE authoritative source of divine wisdom, it's astonishing to me that such ones apparently find none of this history in the least bit unsettling.