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To: SatinDoll
"There were many Gospels, too, in the early centuries of the Church. Only Church establishment approved Gospels made it into the Bible."

Correct.

And that is because the Bible is the inspired word of God. God did not whisper each word of the Bible into the ears of the people who wrote the Bible. Rather, the Bible is a collection of works that were written under the inspiration of God's Holy Spirit. How do we know this? Because a number of people have discerned God's Spirit within the writings that are now the Bible. Those same people did not discern God's Spirit in the books that were left out of the Bible.

Muslims, on the other hand, believe that the Koran is the literal word of God. They believe that the Arcangel Gabrielt dictate word for word every word in the Koran, and that the words in the Koran are Allah's very words. They believe, moreover, that Gabriel spoke to Mohammed in Arabic, and that therefore the only true Koran is written in Arabic.

Were it to be discovered that the text of the Koran preceded the life of Mohammed, it would undermine a baci belief of Islam.

142 posted on 01/21/2008 7:30:14 AM PST by chs68
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To: chs68
God did not whisper each word of the Bible into the ears of the people who wrote the Bible.

If God did not give us every word in the scriptures, then how is all scripture given by inspiration of God (versus subjective opinion)? (2Ti 3:16)

Your argument proves nothing: you argue that those that were inspired were accepted; those that were not accepted were not inspired. This circular argument proves nothing.

Notice how Jesus the Christ considered every word (not just the overall meaning) essential:

Luke 4:2
2 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. 3 And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread. 4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

Here you'll see that Christ went so far as to make a spiritual argument based on the single tense of a single word!

Mark 12:24
24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? 25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven. 26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I [am] the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? 27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

(Me thinks that it is you who err.)
149 posted on 01/21/2008 5:35:15 PM PST by mbj
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