To: Claud
I gotta dumb question for you. Who wrote the New Testament? God.
107 posted on
09/13/2005 11:19:58 AM PDT by
biblewonk
(Jeremiah 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots?)
To: biblewonk
Who determined it was divinely-inspired?
108 posted on
09/13/2005 11:29:55 AM PDT by
Pyro7480
("Behold thy mother." -Our Lord Jesus Christ, John 19: 27)
To: biblewonk
Of course God wrote it ultimately. But who physically *wrote out* God's words, in Greek, out on the parchments that got copied, recopied and passed around in the ancient Christian world?
114 posted on
09/13/2005 12:04:24 PM PDT by
Claud
To: biblewonk; Claud; Pyro7480
Claud: I gotta dumb question for you. Who wrote the New Testament?
BW: God. That's a mohammedan, or mormon approach to scripture.
It is not at all Christian (or even Jewish). There's a huge world of difference between "God wrote it" and "God inspired human authors when they wrote it". With the exception of the commandments on Mt. Sinai, the Bible was written by a variety of human authors, all enlightened and protected from error by God.
115 posted on
09/13/2005 12:05:45 PM PDT by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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