Which people and which motives dictated the editing of the christian bible......?

Question

and why did these misogynistic men exclude the gospel of mary of magdalene?

CL Richardson - wrong!

Answer 1

Wouldn't it be nice if everyone were forced to write and defend a thesis so they had some idea of what it is like to get a paper past a group of educated scholars.

Instead we only torture people who want the letters MS, MA or Phd after their names and the uneducated public thinks those letters appear magically after paying tuition for a few extra years.

The short answer is God dictated the editing of the Christian Bible. The long answer would take an education to understand.

Seventeen hundred years ago a bunch of the most educated scholars on the subject, who were a whole lot more familiar with the times and the documents than you are, spent a long time studying the documents and putting them together into the most accurate group of "thesis" ever defended on the planet.

Seventeen hundred years later people who are clueless about this process are second guessing the educated people because some of these rejected thesis fit their ideology of the times 2000 years ago better than the ones the group of scholars picked.

Some of these people are so stupid as to think that the earliest recorded copies we have of these documents are "first editions", as if it is easy to find a "first edition" of a hand copied document distributed 2000 years ago.

I could keep going, but, the attention span of anyone with an IQ low enough to believe that the question is sensible would not be long enough to read the answer. Anyone with an IQ high enough to have the attention span necessary already knows the answer.

PS: PaulCyp, the Apocrypha, which is what I assume you are refering to was not originally canonized, although it was originally included in the King James translation of the Bible. The Catholics use a more "accurate" King James version that includes more books than were originally canonized.

Just an FYI:

A lot of people disagreed about the original canonization of the books in the Bible so the most popular books that were not canonized were kept around anyway. These books were eventually originally included in the King James version of the Bible, and then were removed from some (protestant) versions when someone realized that they were not originally canonized.

Catholics still use these books in their, "more accurate" version of the King James translation.

Needless to say the Mary Magdalene "Gospel" and the "Infancy Gospel" of Thomas, two of the more popular "dime Novels" of the times were not included in any group of books by any scholar. Including these books would be similar to including "Killers of West Texas", or "Doc Savage and the Tattooed Man" in your school history book.

Answer 2

The compilation of the Canon of Scripture was guided by the Holy Spirit. That was the only criterion. What God wanted included was included. Only 4 of more than a dozen gospels were included. Only 27 of more than 100 New Testament texts altogether. The 73 divinely inspired books that were selected are the Christian Bible. Nothing more, nothing less. Protestants take the untenable position that the Catholic Church, in compiling the Canon, erred on 7 of its 73 selections, but was infallible on the other 66. Sorry, it's all or nothing. Either the Catholic Church infallibly defined the Canon of Scripture once and for all time, or, it erred on 10% of its selections, in which case we have no way of knowing that any text is divinely inspired. If the Church erred on 10% of the books selected, I'd be highly suspicious about its accuracy on the rest of them. Besides, Luther, who threw out the 7 Old Testament texts on spurious grounds, also fully intended to throw out 3 New Testament books, but was prevented from doing so by the vehement objection of his own followers. So much for Luther's ability to discern Scripture and rewrite the Canon.

Answer 3

Do you read Greek? Have you read the original fragments or a direct translation or some cleaned up "New age" version that takes the fragments out of their context?

The Church Fathers may or may not have been Misogynistic but various works not just the "gospel" of Mary Madgalene got excluded from the canon for a VARIETY of reasons.

Answer 4

The canon books were chosen because their reliability could be verified in several ways. The so called "gospel" of Mary Magdalene was full of errors. That's why it was not included in the finished work.

Anyone who thinks it's a matter of male chauvinism should consider checking their own bigotry meters and learn a little history, ey? Just a thought. :)

Answer 5

It was the counsil of Nicea, or how ever that's spelled. All the leaders of the various christian sects got together and voted on the basic Christian beliefs, such as the existance of the Trinity, whether Jesus was divine or simply the highest created being and which books were placed in the Bible and which were not, the Gospel of Mary being one of them, the Gospel of Jesus being another. Interesting how they didn't think a book written by Jesus was important but a book written by a guy (Luke) who knew a guy who knew a guy who knew Jesus was. At any rate they all decided which books where written by God and which weren't. The Bible was composed of these various text to unify Rome under one religion, which was a mix of paganism and christian teachings. The Catholic religion.

Answer 6

they did not add the gospel of mary because christians beleive that woman in a lesser. She would not have been added

Answer 7

Because they read the DaVinci Code and knew it would cause a stink.