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To: boatbums

Warfield is a bit dated. Don’t you think? Consider the source.

Evidence now shows that the Old Testament canon was not closed even among the Jews at the time the New Testament was written and that the Deuterocanonical books had influences on numerous passages.

http://st-takla.org/pub_Deuterocanon/Deuterocanon-Apocrypha_El-Asfar_El-Kanoneya_El-Tanya__0-index.html

And if you look at the Bible that was brought to Ethiopia in the 4th century, it shows a remarkably different canon. http://ethiopianorthodox.org/english/canonical/books.html

And as far as the Epistles of St. Ignatius are concerned, the ones I’ve cited are regarded by scholars as having been authentic.

The differences between the longer and shorter recensions are not unlike the different manuscript recensions we find among the early Biblical manuscripts.

That is they use different words to say just about the same thing. You can’t avoid copyist error.

Take the ending of Mark’s gospel for example, it doesn’t exist in some early manuscripts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon


1,909 posted on 12/01/2011 4:04:45 PM PST by rzman21
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To: rzman21; boatbums
Warfield is a bit dated. Don’t you think? Consider the source.

As dated as St. Ignatius?

You can't be serious in that criticism......

1,914 posted on 12/01/2011 5:19:17 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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