How do u defend the canonization of the Bible, since it has been compiled by human process much later than the books being written, and the compilers were not the writers who were inspired, let alone the inspiration defense?
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Stop spreading lies. You have no idea what your talking about. Those are lies.
The “compilers” were not some small group of men, they were virtually the entire church from the first century through the beginning of the fourth century.
The books that were finally accepted as canon were not because some small group of guys said they were inspired, but because they were honoring a corporate decision made by the entire church over a period of several hundred years.
Meaning they believed the Holy Spirit guided the church into making this decision.
God is sovereign, humans put it together as He saw fit
The Omd
God is the One who defines the canon. The author, not the readers, sets the canon of their writings.
It is up to us to discover what that canon is. The consistency in message of the current canon (the 39 books of the OT, 27 books of the NT) and other marks of inspiration give is high confidence that what we have is indeed the complete special revelation of God to us.
first.
the scripture were not all written by the holy Spirit.
second.
the scripture being inspired doesn’t mean lack of human thought.
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human whom we claimed to have written these are not better than those who canonized it.
Fourth.
the scripture was agreed upon to be taken as word of God.
fifth.
the scripture called holy scripture just means sacred or book of no other.
canonizing was to narrow the cumbersome of the volume of writing spreading at that period which are truth and lies.
Any and all translation we have today are nothing but a copy of a copy. Go look up for yourself if do not belive that do not try to judge me engage in an debate over it
Not surprised the word of God has been attacked for years. But here’s the thing about a historical document can the people’s, places, and particulars be seen to be accurate? The answer is yes there is no other historical document that has been spot on in it’s historicity
The sovereign God caused them to determine the rule (canon) which is Jesus.
Simple God works in mysterious ways and He does work all things together for the good of His children.
I just posted some links to playlists with some similar information supporting scriptural canon on another post and I can post them again here. I think it’s important to set aside popular secular and anti-judeochristian dogmas that have become pop-academia sound bytes and groundwork for gnostic philosophies rampant in pop culture (Dan brown). Please give actual historical record and biblical scholars and church historians some thought. For far too long has it been just accepted what secular forums and academics with heavy bias have said regarding canon. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfClIfIdmaB6SWolWYs6UXiDMQrQfNULU
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZQH9qF_e8cFP-9h9ShN2I4DiE93nejFm
Strange logic. Canonization is not really the point. What is relevant is the books are the inspired word of God. The majority of books were considered that from the very beginning long before councils of men gave them that designation. There are so many ancient copies, far more than any other book from antiquity, that scholars (even non Christian) have been able to reconstruct the original manuscripts to a very high degree of accuracy. This isn’t really controversial. Go look it up.
It’s one thing to put up an honest question. It’s entirely something different to put up something to cause conflict.
Personally it’s all there for our teaching and instruction. But the MAIN THING is so narrow and succinct that it has not been corrupted.
You hear, inner or outer ear. You believe… You lament your terrible sin against God. You immerse your entire body under water for baptism in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
You love God with all your mind, body, and soul by seeking knowledge of Him and by loving all others as you love yourself. Then you stay In contrition because you still struggle while in the flesh… But you know that God is faithful and will continue to forgive you always…
Be sure your neighbors and all other people that you can know how to avoid eternal damnation.
Keep as much as you can with the parables Christ gave. Those work just like math rules… All the time.
When you do these things and are on the path from zero to perfect, eventually you’ll start to see Satan’s lies, manipulations, and tricks… As long as you are on the path, He’s gonna save you.
Straight and Narrow ?
There are literally tens of thousands of strong evidence that show the impossibility for man to have written the Bible without Divine inspiration and guidance. For a few of these strong evidences feel free to visit my Facebook page.
Well first of all I don’t know who to defend in a canonization of scripture.
but if I were to defend it it would be in reference to the $18,000 copies of documents and parchments and fragments that we have.
You can actually reconstruct the entire Bible several times over just from extra biblical literary pieces we have dating before 1200 so it’s it’s incredibly easy to defend the canonization of scripture.
Never overlook the fact that it is the Almighty , Holy who both inspired and ensured the preservation of the holy scriptures, the Bible.
Sheesh… always men on all sides arguing about a book which in and of itself has no breath in it at all. If one truly believed the scriptures to be God breathed he would call out to the breather of them without questioning the breath. Really not that complicated.
The old testament books were recognized as authoritative around the time of Jesus ,the earliest list of the twenty seven new testament books is found in a letter by Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria AD 367,so canonization is just the collection of writings that were acknowledged by the early church as it’s authoritative rule of faith and practice,historic christains belief is that the process by which these books came to be accepted as authoritative transpired under the influence of the spirit of God.
Different writers talks about same thing at different times. They can be true. Compare with Koran and Veda. Archaeology supports Bible. Philoaophy of life ensures Bible is truest.
God can defend his word no matter what
Because it hasn’t been compiled by people much later than the books were written.
22 books of the New Testament were accepted before the end of the first century. Paul’s epistles were accepted as Scripture by Peter (2 Pet. 3:15-26).
The other five were controversial mainly due to uncertainty of authorship.
Remember, there was no idea to collect the Documents of the New Testiment early on, and very few if any churches had all those Documents. Scrolls were expensive, illiteracy was widespread. It wasn’t until the heretic, Marcion, created a false canon that the church attempted to create a list of authoritative Books. The earliest we have is the Muratorisn Canon (c. 170 a.d.).
Bottom line the peoples,places and the particulars have been historically verified
I believe that the Holy Spirit must have been involved in such a remarkable act of unity, and that all Christians still agree on the core 66 books to this day. Remarkable unity on an essential.
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