I'd rank Shakespeare up there.
The Bible is unique amongst ancient literature for It's overarching emphasis on social justice and the wages of sin.
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The Bible is unique amongst ancient literature for It's overarching emphasis on social justice and the wages of sin.
Yakuda
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And it's accurate representation of human nature and all it's ugliness
I think the Greek tragedians Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides were profound chroniclers of human nature four centuries before the Bible. But they did not have the Bible's perspective on social justice.
Dutch Uncle
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My wife believes in miracles too. Likewise, I do not try to convince her otherwise.
The concept is just that, a concept. A perception. Hundreds of year's worth of theologians trying to understand God.
As for the Bible, let's not forget that the books of the Bible were chosen, that the Bible didn't fall of the cross as one book. There were a lot of books written that were excluded such as the Gospel of Mary, the Gospel of Judas and Gnostic books.
Books Removed from the Bible: A List of All 17 Books (With Summaries)
Explore the fascinating history of the books removed from the Bible, from the Old Testament Apocrypha to early Christian writings, learning why they are not in the biblical canon.
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Dutch Uncle
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Agreed. Weird!
Also agreed on the Bible being a mixed bag. It's why it fascinates me that certain people cherry-pick from the Bible. Not just the cherry-picking but also what they cherry-pick and how they use it over time.
Yakuda
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As I said the bible is a great read about human nature. Whether someone did it previously doesn't change what is n
Margot
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Whatever!
Yeah. Most coloring books do not touch on that.
Sounds like it came from Google AI, Cy!
And here we go....you can click on any one of them to see the full context. You frantically google more than I eat hot food.
Wow. So knowledgable. You must live with Google AI.
And here we go....you can click on any one of them to see the full context. You frantically google more than I eat hot food.
ftfy. Any educated and well read person has heard of the three seminal Greek playwrights Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides.
It says more about you and your education that this is the first you've ever heard of them.
Margot
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The Gospel of Thomas has a huge impact on my life!My wife believes in miracles too. Likewise, I do not try to convince her otherwise.
The concept is just that, a concept. A perception. Hundreds of year's worth of theologians trying to understand God.
As for the Bible, let's not forget that the books of the Bible were chosen, that the Bible didn't fall of the cross as one book. There were a lot of books written that were excluded such as the Gospel of Mary, the Gospel of Judas and Gnostic books.
Books Removed from the Bible: A List of All 17 Books (With Summaries)
Explore the fascinating history of the books removed from the Bible, from the Old Testament Apocrypha to early Christian writings, learning why they are not in the biblical canon.
Catholic ,Protestant Bibles,kept it out,Ethiopian Bible has it!
However it works for me.
My wife believes in miracles too. Likewise, I do not try to convince her otherwise.
The concept is just that, a concept. A perception. Hundreds of year's worth of theologians trying to understand God.
As for the Bible, let's not forget that the books of the Bible were chosen, that the Bible didn't fall of the cross as one book. There were a lot of books written that were excluded such as the Gospel of Mary, the Gospel of Judas and Gnostic books.
Books Removed from the Bible: A List of All 17 Books (With Summaries)
Explore the fascinating history of the books removed from the Bible, from the Old Testament Apocrypha to early Christian writings, learning why they are not in the biblical canon.
The church had a sensible criteria for what books to include in the New Testament. It had be written by an eyewitness, or someone who knew the eyewitnesses; it had to have attained a level of credibility by being widely used across the Mediterranean world; and they had to be internally consistent in terms of theology and doctrine.
While it wasn't a perfect system, it did a reasonably good job of keeping out most forgeries, and keeping our the apocrypha which were not written until the second or third centuries.
Yet, according to scholars at least 8 of the 27 books in the NT are forgeries.
Right, that's exactly why I said most forgeries were kept out of the New Testament. There were dozens of gospels and and epistles that were known to be forgeries or determined to not be associated with any eyewitness.
It all goes back to the words christo meaning anointed and chresto meaning good. The monks translating a copy of a copy would change the "e" into an "i" and turn a good person into the anointed one.
Apostle_Frank
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I find that fascinating. You were touched by a book that the normal western Cannon explicitly left out but one group kept in. It speaks volumes to the nature of the holy book. Makes you wonder if anyone got it right.
HELLO!