This can't be right, can it?
This timeline suggests that the book of Revelation was possibly written BEFORE:
2 John
3 John
The Gospel According to St. John
Hebrews
Jude, and
2 Peter
But I thought Revelation 22:18 said that nobody should add anything to what was written up to that point. How could those other books, written after Revelation, be scripture? Weren't they "added to" the words that were written in the book already?
That's what I've often heard. Nothing can be added to the Bible, because Revelation said nothing could be added. It was all closed. Hmmm...
This timeline suggests that the book of Revelation was possibly written BEFORE:
2 John
3 John
The Gospel According to St. John
Hebrews
Jude, and
2 Peter
But I thought Revelation 22:18 said that nobody should add anything to what was written up to that point. How could those other books, written after Revelation, be scripture? Weren't they "added to" the words that were written in the book already?
That's what I've often heard. Nothing can be added to the Bible, because Revelation said nothing could be added. It was all closed. Hmmm...
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If our minds hear something long enough than we assume it is true.
Each new Council and Government seem to had a need to include and exclude books even to revise an unify as in the case of Jerome and than we learn the Originals is lost an only the Latin is available.
The 1st Christian and Western Bible varied!
What we have in this Chronology is many good LEADS to do a Google/Yahoo/etc to have more detail for a better understanding of events!
I have heard for years we have the originals only to now learn that "Christianity Today!" Did the report on Top Ten New Testament Archaeological Finds of the Past 150 Years Christianity Today ^ | 09/23/2003 | By Ben Witherington III and said.......
The earliest piece of the New Testament we have is a small portion of John 18 copied on a piece of papyrus and dating to about A.D. 125.
Of course we know that the New Testament books were written in the first century A.D.
But we don't have any of the original manuscripts.
What we do have is copies of copies of copies.