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To: Cronos

Christ is the Word made Flesh. Correct. I never said differently, but adding to the written word by adding to the Gospel as presented in Scripture has been anathematized in the NT. It was to this that I was referring.


188 posted on 01/04/2012 12:47:51 PM PST by JLLH
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To: JLLH
but adding to the written word by adding to the Gospel as presented in Scripture has been anathematized in the NT

That is where you are doubly wrong: firstly, the words in Apocalypse 18-19 say:If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book
19And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

so "curses on both those add and take away from the book"

Secondly, read verse 18 carefully "the plagues that are written in this book" -- that tells you that the verses mean if you take away or add to the book of Revelation -- the Bible is a collection of books and John of Patmos refers solely to his book -- Apocalypse.

192 posted on 01/04/2012 1:03:34 PM PST by Cronos (Party like it's 12 20, 2012)
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To: JLLH
Note the above: adding/removing is only with reference to the book of Revelation.

The canon i.e. the Bible is a collection of books.

Did you know that for most of the Early Christians until the canon was closed in the third century, for most of these, the book of Revelation in fact was NOT in the Bible?

For example the Jewish canon itself was not closed until the 2nd century AD? Unless one takes into account 1 Maccabeus 3 which shows how this was closed in the time of the Maccabees and included Esther, Maccabees etc.

Christian canons start from Marcion's in the first century which tossed out the entire OT and kept only the Pauline Epistles and the Gospel of Luke.

Origen's in the 2nd century was closer -- it include all of the books in the current Catholic canon except for four books: James, 2nd Peter, and 2nd and 3rd epistles of John.

Athanasius' canon in 367 included the Book of Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah in the canon but omitted the book of Esther from the canon.

Anyway, the upshot is that canon was collected over centuries and closed under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit by the community of Christ, i.e. the Church, in councils.

193 posted on 01/04/2012 1:20:02 PM PST by Cronos (Party like it's 12 20, 2012)
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