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To: HarleyD

Al says, there will be no canon: the books that are inspired will not be known as such.

One way to visualize it is to imagine a Religion section as Borders that would contain books like this:

Second Letter of John
Tea Leaves, Ouiji, And Other Inspired Stuff
Tao of Hydroponic Tomato
Hymns by Luther
Exodus and Joshua, commentary by Moshe Dayan
Jeremiah
Gospel of Thomas
City of God
Gospel of Judas
The Holy Koran
St. Paul For Dummies
Gospel of Mark and Letters of Peter, annotated by Jack Chick

...


5 posted on 08/16/2007 5:51:11 PM PDT by annalex
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To: annalex

LOL! Great analogy.


6 posted on 08/16/2007 5:59:48 PM PDT by livius
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To: annalex; HarleyD
Al says, there will be no canon: the books that are inspired will not be known as such.

This thinking reveals why he converted, obviously he believes his new church was the deciding factor in what was Scripture. If he studied history at all he would know they were very late in recognizing the Canon.

Luke 24:44 "Then he said to them, These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me."

2Peter 3:15-16 and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation-as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles,......as they do also the rest of Scriptures.

2 Timothy 4:11-13 Only Luke is with me....Bring the cloak that I left with with Carpus at Troas when you come-and the books, especially the parchments.

IOW, Scripture itself gives us a good idea of what should be in the Canon.

Also, the only books that were not written by Apostles in the New Testament are Mark, Luke, Acts, James and Jude. Mark was a coworker with Peter and traveled with Paul. Luke was a friend of Paul. The writers of James and Jude were Christ's brothers. The late recognition by the RCC was after the fact.

Exactly when did the RCC declare what was the Canon Annalex?

7 posted on 08/16/2007 7:03:14 PM PDT by wmfights (LUKE 9:49-50 , MARK 9:38-41)
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To: annalex
Exodus and Joshua, commentary by Moshe Dayan

Can I get that from Amazon.com? Did General Dayan do a commentary on 1&2 Samuel and 1&2 Kings? If not, can we get Bibi Netanyahu to do it?

8 posted on 08/16/2007 7:05:56 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Don't like my attitude? Call 1-800-GET-A-DOG.)
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To: annalex
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13 posted on 08/16/2007 9:03:32 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: annalex
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14 posted on 08/16/2007 9:04:21 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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