isn't the Bible suppose to be the words of God revealed to Jesus? isn't the Bible suppose to be shut down (no one write anything on it) after Jesus was gone? but what i saw is there were people even describing the crossification of Jesus, and people were writing in the Bible after Jesus was gone. and worse than that John who was a preacher came years later after the crossification and then someone decide to put his words inside the Bible.
and my question is, is the Bible suppose to be the word of God or a note-book anyone can put his inspiration & thoughs in it?
2006-12-05 06:18:37 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Since the Canon of Scripture was closed by the Church...(remember - the Church gave us the Bible...not the other way around...)
And since John's final Book was "The Revelation of Jesus Christ"....
And at the end of Revelation, St. John said:
"For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and [from] the things which are written in this book."
Then shouldn't the answer properly be:
NO!
2006-12-05 06:23:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
John was a Prophet of God's, a God send if you will. God spoke through John as he did with all the Apostles. John wrote what God told him to write. He had every right to add a book to the Bible. It was Gods will. He did not alter it. If John were alive today and added to the Bible it would only be because God instructed him to. If you had read the Bible you would have noticed the similiarities to all the other books in the Bible. Without God's council the Apostles would not know how to minister to people, what to say. In all actuality, all that was written was dictated by God to the prophets and the apostles that he had specially selected. He spoke through them. He was their prompter. All the books written by different authors were of the same era and generation. The books are pretty much the same. Their just written from different perspectives. I don't think the Bible is like any other book. I don't think the Bible has an ending or ever had one. Given all the similiarities of the Bible one would think that what was written was true and all that was said really happened. Mans faith in God should be unfaltering and unquestionable. But it's not. That's a downside of Adam having give us freewill through his sins, opening our eyes. If he hadn't eaten that fruit we would all be without sins, downside, no freewill. Just singing, praising, do we have off time? R&R? Virtually programmed as one body. Hmmm, I just realized, what would be worse? freewill, living in sin? Or living without sin and not having control of ourselves. Just doing what God wants, like a drone. No advancement, no accomplishments. Well, I think I gotta do a little more searching deep within myself on this. Wow, this opens doors to a whole new library of questions and answers.
Peace.
2006-12-05 15:15:17 · answer #2 · answered by zzap2001 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2 TImothy 3:16
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God..."
Paul, Luke (author of Acts) Peter, James, Jude, and John all write through the divine inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
Were John still alive today, His teachings would be relevant, and no doubt inspired. They would be perfectly aligned with the rest of the Biblical texts and therefore redundant.
Any others that would proclaim to write under God's inspiration would also have their writings proclaimed as redundant and unnecessary.
2006-12-05 14:33:43 · answer #3 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Catholics have additional resources available, placed "after the scripture." Revelation is, in and of itself, one book. It was only later put together with others to form the Bible. The curse clearly refers adjustment made to the book of Revelation.
Resources:
Catechism
Encyclicals
Various writings by know saints (those who are known to be in Heaven).
2006-12-05 14:24:26 · answer #4 · answered by BigPappa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which John are you talking about? The John who wrote the fourth book of the new testament, or the John who wrote revelation? Ithink the latter should be removed from the bible, since it is ambiguous as to who wrote it and when
2006-12-05 14:24:26 · answer #5 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No I wouldn't let him.
And it is the word of God not a notebook
2006-12-05 14:23:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋