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vincentML -> RE: Why the Bible? (11/22/2009 10:04:10 AM)
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ORIGINAL: eyesopened
Sorry, I wasn't aware there was a difference between the Roman version and the Orthodox version. To answer your question, it is the canon primarily that I was talking about.
The question "Why the Bible" was not talking about redemption. That's a whole 'nother thread.
The First Christian Bible
At the time the Christian Bible was being formed, a Greek translation of Jewish Scripture, the Septuagint, was in common use and Christians adopted it as the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. However, around 100 A.D., Jewish rabbis revised their Scripture and established an official canon of Judaism which excluded some portions of the Greek Septuagint. The material excluded was a group of 15 late Jewish books, written during the period 170 B.C. to 70 A.D., that were not found in Hebrew versions of the Jewish Scripture. Christians did not follow the revisions of Judaism and continued to use the text of the Septuagint as the Old Testament.
Protestant Bibles
In the 1500s, Protestant leaders decided to organize the Old Testament material according to the official canon of Judaism rather than the Septuagint. They moved the Old Testament material which was not in the Jewish canon into a separate section of the Bible called the Apocrypha. So, Protestant Bibles then included all the same material as the earlier Bible, but it was divided into two sections: the Old Testament and the Apocrypha. Protestant Bibles included the Apocrypha until the mid 1800s, and the King James Version was originally published with the Apocrypha. However, the books of the Apocrypha were considered less important, and the Apocrypha was eventually dropped from most Protestant editions.
Catholic and Orthodox Bibles
The Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches did not follow the Protestant revisions, and they continue to base their Old Testament on the Septuagint. The result is that these versions of the the Bible have more Old Testament books than most Protestant versions. Catholic Old Testaments include 1st and 2nd Maccabees, Baruch, Tobit, Judith, The Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), additions to Esther, and the stories of Susanna and Bel and the Dragon which are included in Daniel. Orthodox Old Testaments include these plus 1st and 2nd Esdras, Prayer of Manasseh, Psalm 151 and 3rd Maccabees.
http://www.twopaths.com/faq_bibles.htm
Thank you for the information. It is well appreciated. Given what you say is correct there seems to be much to debate in the video preacher's assertion of a well-codified and internally coherrent Canon. As i recall it is the basis of his affirmation of the Bible.
I assumed, did you not, from the OP's signature in all their posts that their primary interest is the NT with their signature: "Jesus said, "I Am The Way, The Truth, and The Life: No man comes to the Father but by Me." This is not meant to attack the OP but to point out why I assume their concern is mainly with the message of the redemption.
You said earlier quote:
I do not, and no one could ever convince me that the Bible is the actual Word of God. There are inconsistancies
With that I can readily agree. Sometimes, however, people use historical incosistencies of events and writings to blind themselves to the professions of faith. On the other hand there are the fervent and unyielding Faithful who base everything upon the supposed inerrancy of the Bible. It seems a curious observation of extremes.
Thanks again for the input.
vincent
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