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To: MarkBsnr

You are wrong on your history.

See http://www.bible-researcher.com/canon5.html


121 posted on 07/23/2009 7:01:12 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (I loathe the ground he slithers on!)
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To: Mr Rogers

***You are wrong on your history.

See http://www.bible-researcher.com/canon5.html***

Interesting.

Your website lists the Shepherd, for instance, as only admitted by the Codex Claramontanus. Wikipedia says that: The Shepherd of Hermas (sometimes just called The Shepherd) is a Christian literary work of the second century, considered a valuable book by many Christians, and considered canonical scripture by some of the early Church fathers. The Shepherd had great authority in the second and third centuries.[1] It was cited as Scripture by Irenaeus and Tertullian and was bound with the New Testament in the Codex Sinaiticus, and it was listed between the Acts of the Apostles and the Acts of Paul in the stichometrical list of the Codex Claromontanus.

The Epistle of Barnabas is a Greek treatise with some features of an epistle containing twenty-one chapters, preserved complete in the 4th century Codex Sinaiticus where it appears at the end of the New Testament. It is traditionally ascribed to Barnabas who is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, though some ascribe it to another apostolic father of the same name, a “Barnabas of Alexandria”, or simply attribute it to an unknown early Christian teacher. A form of the Epistle 850 lines long is noted in the Latin list of canonical works in the 6th century Codex Claromontanus [1]. It is not to be confused with the Gospel of Barnabas.

The most complete text is in the Codex Sinaiticus (=S; 4th century) and the Codex Hierosolymitanus (=H; 11th century), which are usually in agreement on variant readings. A truncated form of the text in which Polycarp’s Epistle to the Philippians 1.1-9.2 continues with Barnabas 5.7a and following, without any indication of the transition, survives in nine Greek manuscripts (=G; from 11th century onward) and often agrees with the old Latin translation (=L) against S and H.

Your site only lists Barnabas in Claramontanus.

The Book of Enoch (also 1 Enoch[1]) is a pseudepigraphic work ascribed to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah and son of Jared (Genesis 5:18).

While this book today is non-canonical in most Christian Churches, it was explicitly quoted[2]:8 in the New Testament (Letter of Jude 1:14-15) and by many of the early Church Fathers. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church to this day regards it to be canonical.

Your site does not list Enoch.

I submit that I am not wrong on my history; the Church took several hundred years to establish the NT Scripture, and another 150 years to firmly declare it.

The Bible did not fall down out of the sky. It took the Church to the limit of its fallible men for 300 years with the help of the Holy Spirit to declare the NT Scripture.


123 posted on 07/23/2009 7:28:58 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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