Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Are the right books in the Bible?

Eusebius category for biblical writings that are accepted, rejected and undisputed, made me think on whether the right books that are in the bible and who chose these specific books and why. Canon means a list of authoritative texts used in a church to teach doctrine, with that in mind it begs to ask questions like what process did early Christians use to identify which books should be included in the NT canons. An article published by Sean McDowell (https://www.idisciple.org/post/how-do-we-know-the-bible-includes-the-right-books), talks about how early Christians believed the NT books held authority from God since they were inspired. However we have come to learn that half of these books in NT that hey considered inspired by God, were actually Pseudography (or fraudulent) written by some other person pretending to be one of the disciples. So should these book be removed from the bible?

An article by Grace Communion International talks about criteria’s that early church used to accept and reject these Scriptures one of them was: 1) antiquity and apostolic-whether a book had been written by an apostle. And so if as the author of the rise and fall and the bible, states that some of the books were written by people who did not even see the event occur, but were told by others(e.g. Jesus reading the to the community). Furthermore I feel the Bible is a very powerful book, that influences a lot of countries and cultures, and this cultures tend to live their life by the Bible. With that being said if there are writings that are disputed by some but not others, (like the second letter of Peter) in the Bible, I feel it’s best to remove these books (even though that will not happen) in the NT Bible, because there is no 100% certainty that writings are holy or authoritative. I am just saying this should be done so as to avoid leading the followers of the bible in a different direction.

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