I was watchn some crap about this on the HIstory channel
2006-06-16 18:56:44 · 13 answers · asked by Ryan Silva 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
because it didn't go with what the people in charge wanted at the time. So they change things around.
2006-06-16 19:00:52 · answer #1 · answered by melissa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well for a variety of reasons really....
First not everyone believed the information in the banned books was truly good scripture. Its much like the denomonational issues we find in churches today. Not everyone believes exactly the same things, even if they are under the same basic beliefs. For this reason many different people only kept the things that they liked. An example is from Marcion, who made up his cannon of strictly the letters attributed to Paul, disregarding the synoptic gospels by in large. Considering the social climate of the period when the writings were being produced, it was often the case that people were not familiar with certain texts. The movable type was over a century and a half away so it was often very difficult to read what other people were writing. People were only influenced by the writings that they had access to and therefore some differing opinions and different texts were disregarded from the final cannon. Along with different percieved heresies it is because of these reasons that the cannon ended up the way that it did.
2006-06-17 02:04:07 · answer #2 · answered by blindog23 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greed, manipulation. I am sure what is in there, especially OT is not exactly accurate either. It is very contradictory.
Oh well. They didn't get it all. The real message came through to some.
This is a great site by someone who has spent years studying the bible and grace and peace as taught to Paul.
http://www.gospelrevolution.com/
2006-06-17 02:01:52 · answer #3 · answered by ruletheworld 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And History channel didn't give the answers to that? Television is turning out to be a big disappointment!!
But maybe you've answered it yourself.. they were idiots... or maybe there just wanted to control the masses and get rich and powerfull and stuff like that. You know.. stuff that idiots dig!
2006-06-17 02:01:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What books?
There are four canons: Holy Scriptures, Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox.
Obviously there is some dependencies. Various moments will suppress books, but today (especially in the US), all books include some body not in the canon are available.
2006-06-17 02:04:34 · answer #5 · answered by J. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the babble - oops, bible - is a book written by committee and popularity. Its compilation has nothing to do with history or fact, but with power and money.
2006-06-17 02:02:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because those individuals were masturbating several times a day and they couldn't think straight. Just look how they protected their decisions, by burning the opposition and their books. Are such idiots intellectually honest? Nope.
2006-06-17 02:07:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was watching that too! There not IDIOTS. The books they were talking about were not authorized/inspired scripture that was excepted by the Jews of old. They we unauthentic, written way past the supposed date that they claim they were written. Their knid of like the DaVinci Code of their day.
2006-06-17 02:01:26 · answer #8 · answered by stpolycarp77 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any number of reasons: they didn't think they fit in the theological context of the rest of the compilation, they said something the rest of them didn't agree with, they could not be verified historically, and on and on. Not everything is a vast conspiracy...just most things.
2006-06-17 02:01:18 · answer #9 · answered by cynicusprime 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan didn't want the bible to survive for people to read the truth, and put it in the hearts and minds of others to try to get rid of the Bible.
2006-06-17 02:00:11 · answer #10 · answered by FavoredbyU 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋