Re: OT: Shades of gray?

I've lately started wondering if the NT itself should be considered scripture. After all, don't the writings of someone (?Paul) specifically say that nothing should be added to scripture - words to that effect. THese were letters he wrote to various churches, not part of scripture, so canonizing them and making them on the level with the original scriptures seems possibly right up there with churches who have their own "Bibles" they give equal, or almost equal weight as the Bible.

I'm very serious about that.


Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to send wrote:
RaeMorrill wrote:

I heard an interesting take on some TV documentary on the other gospels. Books not chosen to become part of the NT for some reason. In one of



I know you won't necessarily agree with this, but I don't think people just sat around and flipped coins to decide what books were parts of the NT canon and what weren't. One thing they did do was see if the early Church Fathers had quoted them in their writings. I think it was in one of Josh McDowell's books where he documented that a historian who had the entire set of early church fathers (the ones from the 1st century) said that he found the entire NT quoted in there except for something like 2 or 4 verses.

Now, that's not to say that other books might not be quoted there, but I think those were the types of criteria they used to assemble the canon, which was, I believe, pretty much recognized already but just needed something official to seal it.
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