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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