Joel Osteen Releases New Edition Of Bible With All Words Redacted

Babylon Bee ^ | 08/28/2022 | Babylon Bee

[metmom]

You mean those books which contain error and historical inaccuracies?

The ones the Jews never accepted as Divinely Inspired Scripture to begin with?

I guess you have no problem with Scripture containing error then, do you?

[metmom]

Luther’s canon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther%27s_canon

“Luther’s canon is the biblical canon attributed to Martin Luther, which has influenced Protestants since the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. While the Lutheran Confessions specifically did not define a canon, it is widely regarded as the canon of the Lutheran Church. It differs from the 1546 Roman Catholic canon of the Council of Trent in that it rejects the deuterocanonical books and questions the seven New Testament books, called “Luther’s Antilegomena”,[1] four of which are still ordered last in German-language Luther Bibles to this day.”

“Luther included the deuterocanonical books in his translation of the German Bible, but he did relocate them to after the Old Testament, calling them “Apocrypha, that are books which are not considered equal to the Holy Scriptures, but are useful and good to read.”[4]”

FWIW, Luther’s Bible was completed in 1534 but it wasn’t until a decade later that the Catholic church formalized ITS canon.

“Some Catholic sources state and certain historians contend that until the definition of the Council of Trent issued on April 8, 1546, the Roman Catholic Church had not yet dogmatically defined the contents of the biblical canon for Catholics and thus settled the matter.”

So now you have been corrected and can stop spreading error about Protestantism.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

You should rename yourself Captain Hijack. Second post and you try to divert the thread into a Catholic Protestant fight about the Apocryphal books,

[SkyDancer]

JO would make a great used car salesman.

[nwrep]

So Protestants redacted the version of the Old Testament that Jesus and the Apostles read and quoted,

There is not a single quote by Jesus or his apostles from the apocrypha. There are oblique allusions, but no direct quotations. These apocryphal books were not referred to by any of the New Testament writers as authoritative scripture.

The fact that they existed in the Septuagint was incidental. They were not considered authoritative scriptures by the first century Christians who wrote the New Testament. And by the third century, Jews had also rejected them as scripture for other reasons. Thus, two groups, mutually opposed, had both rejected these, and the Reformers made a good call.

In many cases, these apocryphal books directly contradict both OT and NT or both teachings, another good reason to reject them.

[GBA]

Thanks for that list!

It’s amazing to me that the Bible is still as intact as it is, but even more so that the message contained within is still so available to all who seek it.