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To: MNDude

True enough. And yet he claimed it was all part of God’s plan. And the text, by featuring that, appears to agree.


8 posted on 07/23/2022 6:33:26 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.” Hebrews 10:24)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

After studying about it, I believe Esther was included in the Bible by mistake by the Church council around 300.

* the Dead Sea Scrolls contained copies of every Old Testament book except the Book of Esther.

* Melito’s canon is the earliest recorded Old Testament canon we have in the Christian tradition. Again, Esther is not found here.

* Martin Luther, for example, criticized the Book of Esther, accusing it of being too aggressively nationalistic and containing no gospel content

* Esther us never mentioned in any other book of the Bible. Esther and Song of Solomon are the only “books of the Bible” with this distinction.

* God is never named in this book.

I don’t doubt the Bible’s infallibility, just that the books were Canonized by fallible humans, and this is the only book included in error.


11 posted on 07/23/2022 6:57:07 AM PDT by MNDude (Once you remove "they would never" from your vocabulary, it all begins to make sense)
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