[Natural Law]

"SOMEbody sure got left what was WRITTEN!!!"

In your listing of Scriptural references, which by the way has been posted many, many times in this Religion Forum, Jesus is referring not to the Bible, but to the Tanakh. It was the Church which preserved the Tradition from which it produced the Bible some 350 years after the Resurrection.

Peace be with you.

[Elsie]

It was the Church which preserved the Tradition from which it produced the Bible some 350 years after the Resurrection.

Thanks!

And thanks to the holy fathers for QUOTING from the NT so many times!

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It is WRITTEN indeed!!!

[Elsie]

It was the Church which preserved the Tradition from which it produced the Bible some 350 years after the Resurrection.

Too bad it could not keep it's OWN 'tradition' in line!

[boatbums]

In your listing of Scriptural references, which by the way has been posted many, many times in this Religion Forum, Jesus is referring not to the Bible, but to the Tanakh. It was the Church which preserved the Tradition from which it produced the Bible some 350 years after the Resurrection.

Jesus is referring to the Hebrew Bible, called the Tanakh. According to the Talmud (a commentary of the Tanakh) much of the contents of the Tanakh were compiled by the "Men of the Great Assembly" by 450 BCE, and have since remained unchanged. Modern scholars believe that the process of canonization of the Tanakh became finalized between 200 BCE and 200 CE. So, yes, Jesus meant the Divinely-inspired writings of the Old Testament (the name Christians call the Tanakh). But, Elsie, also quoted the writers of the New Testament books and they were ALSO called "Scripture" - as in Divinely inspired writings. These writings were accepted AS from God long before the church decided to make a canon "official" and call it the "Bible".