The arguments started many years ago. A Committee determined what went in and what went out. The word determined by committee.
The arguments started many years ago. A Committee determined what went in and what went out. The word determined by committee.
A Committee determined what went in and what went out
The last few years I have focused on the Gospel, those red words are the ones that count most for me!
I had always wondered about that committee thing. A good friend and smart guy on theology and stuff explained that it wasn’t so much as voting or deciding on what was real, but getting down in paper what most everyone in all the churches knew to be real.
There was lots of crap floating around by that time. Even Paul had to deal with false doctrines and stuff that sprang up early in the church (super apostles, etc.)
I forget how he explained it to me, but it made a lot of sense. He didn’t describe it to me like this, but I’m thinking if they were putting in a bunch of material about 9-11 into a museum it would be the first-hand accounts, eyewitness descriptions, etc and leave out the youtube accounts of missles using airplane holographs as a disguise.
Not really. Almost all first century Christians accepted the following books.
The four Gospels
Acts
All the letters of Paul except Hebrews (Uncertain authorship),
First Peter, First John, and that was all.
Then, two hundred years later came James, 2nd Peter, the other John letters Jude and Revelation.
From what I’ve read, the Roman church wanted Revelation to be added and Hebrews left out.
The Greek church wanted Hebrews but not Revelation. So, they agreed to put both books in.
I believe EVERYONE should read the Apocrypha at least once to see just why they were left out. Even Jerome wanted them out till ordered to put them in.