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To: pgkdan

Who decided what the Bible was to me made up of and when did they decide it? The Disciples I imagine, right?


18 posted on 02/29/2012 9:38:47 AM PST by Natufian (t)
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http://tinyurl.com/7jh3yjw

http://www.holyfear.net/pdf/bruce/canon_bruce.pdf


22 posted on 02/29/2012 9:42:47 AM PST by Pelham (Vultures for Romney. We pluck your carcass)
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To: Natufian
"Who decided what the Bible was to me made up of and when did they decide it? The Disciples I imagine, right?"

It was a gradual process. About 90% of our current NT cannon was universally acknowledged as scripture by the end of the first century. The first written listing of the cannon which is included in most modern bibles was by Althanasius in the 4th Century.

23 posted on 02/29/2012 9:45:42 AM PST by circlecity
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The Apostles decided upon the composition, and of course they wrote (or dictated) most of the books of the New Testament.

No merely old book gets to be a Gospel or part of the Bible: it has to have been accepted by the authority of the Church.

There are various gnostic ‘gospels’ - they are not actual Gospels. They (for instance) contain crazy stories about the young Christ turning his friends into bread and baking them in an oven. As you can guess: the gnostic ‘gospels’ are made-up nonsense and have no validity.


25 posted on 02/29/2012 9:49:30 AM PST by agere_contra ("Debt is the foundation of destruction" : Sarah Palin.)
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To: Natufian

What disciples?


37 posted on 02/29/2012 10:45:47 AM PST by pgkdan (Rick Santorum 2012. Conservative's last, best chance!)
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