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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Another interesting way to look a the bible is, just which ones did the early preachers preach from?
Looking at all the sermons of the first 400 years, we can probably find every verse of the NT quoted (in Greek) as it is written in our modern bibles.


12 posted on 03/27/2015 4:17:35 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Copies and translations were not made from quotes or sermons but from earlier copies going back to the originals.

And you would be hard-pressed to find enough quotes from the first 75 years of the second century to accomplish what you say perhaps could be accomplished.

In the end, God did not send down a note saying “Bind these books together but not these books” and we can see the result of this with Codex A, S and B (Vaticanus) and with the Clermont List and even earlier Muratorian fragment as all contain at least one book that neither Catholics, Protestants or Coptics believe to be inspired by God.


27 posted on 03/28/2015 12:01:46 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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