how many people believe that the Old Testament Apocrypha books that line up with scripture should be considered for a revised canon? also shouldn't the duetrocanons be restored to the bible where they originally where?
2006-07-17 22:01:36 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Feel free! No reason you shouldn't do it and print it. Insisting a religion or branch of a religion do so is unreasonable.
At no time in history has such religious freedom existed where you can simply slap together documents that people have died over to keep "true to their beliefs". That doesn't make it wrong. Thank goodness for that freedom. At the same time, respect for their integrity as a religion suggests that you do so for your own, not push them to.
Maybe they'll adopt it?
2006-07-17 22:07:59 · answer #1 · answered by mckenziecalhoun 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason that some of those books weren't included was because they could not verify who the author was, thus making it hard to decide when it was written. Each book in the Bible was included because they were certain of who the authors were, and could then determine when they were written.
Think about it: Who would you believe, someone who had written a book five hundred years after an event? Or someone who witnessed it, and wrote about it less than twenty years later?
2006-07-18 05:10:27 · answer #2 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the bible should be revised for adjustment to reality - it would then be a collection of blank pages
2006-07-18 05:06:13 · answer #3 · answered by Gallivanting Galactic Gadfly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋