You know they make new saints and change the rules all the time, but I haven't heard about any great new authors inspired by God having their latest books added to the Bible. Wouldn't that be better than trying to pass off those ancient stories, which are so foreign to us modern people, as poignant, when it's been shown that the older a book is, the less is has to do with anything, because people back then were just plain ignorant.
2007-06-16 13:11:12 · 6 answers · asked by ? 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Come on, you really think you couldn't come up with something better than "Thou shalt not kill"? Not even in self-defense, not our enemies, not insane criminals? It begs so many questions as to be utterly useless as a guideline let alone principal.
2007-06-16 13:46:18 · update #1
The Christian Bible has a closed cannon, which means no books can ever be added. The only exception are Mormons who added the book of Mormon and still have an open cannon.
There are several older books that were never included, most significant are all the Gnostic books.
2007-06-16 13:18:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, there are books written by Christians since The Holy Bible, but none have been or should be added to The Holy Bible.
The Holy Bible is NOT a book of foreign ancient stories. It is a living history, a blueprint, a book filled with life and how believers in God Almighty dealt with them.
The people were NOT ignorant. They did not have the technological advancements we are blessed and cursed with today, but is it not amazing that they dealt with the SAME problems we face with today without all the zip and zing perfectly.
I think it is we the "modern civilization" with all our dependency & reliance upon zip and zing technological who are woefully ignorant.
2007-06-16 20:40:11 · answer #2 · answered by faith 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are universal principles in those "older" books which stand the test of time!
For example, the Ten Commandments. If the Bible never existed, who would have come up with these principles? We would have be savages to this day! These written principles make sense.
GOD bless
2007-06-16 20:20:34 · answer #3 · answered by Exodus 20:1-17 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"The older a book is, the less it has to do with anything." Do you mean Shakespeare, Chaucer, Ovid, Cicero, Plato, Aristotle, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Homer? I mean really.
(That's Homer as in Homer, not Homer Simpson btw.)
2007-06-16 20:17:18 · answer #4 · answered by 2kool4u 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you ever actually read the Bible instead of criticizing it, you would find the truths it discloses are as applicable today as they have ever been.
"He who gives an answer before he hears,
It is folly and shame to him."
Proverbs 18;13
2007-06-16 20:21:03 · answer #5 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible - Copyright 1a.d. - Its a Classic Comedy.
2007-06-16 20:14:30 · answer #6 · answered by Mary Magdalene 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋