DOH... I wouldn't have revived this thread. I thought I was reading messages in order of date received. Unfortunately, I had clicked the threads button. Enogh of this. Paul On Jan 7, 2007, at 5:23 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
> This is in keeping with what I've read. There were numerous > "gospels," Jerome allegedly chose the documents which were written by > those who were closest to Jesus. Biblical research can be very > interesting. If nothing more, it's an important part of world history. > Paul > On Jan 3, 2007, at 8:29 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > >> John Sessoms wrote: >>>> From: >>>> frank theriault >>>> On 1/3/07, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> Just one side point... neither purgatory or a burning hell are >>>>> taught >>>>> by the >>>>> Bible. So yes a strange, in fact, false logic.<snip> >>>> Indeed! >>>> >>>> The concept of purgatory is Roman Catholic dogma (perhaps other >>>> Christian sects believe in it, I don't know). What has Catholicism >>>> ever had to do with the Bible? >>>> >>>> cheers, >>>> frank, recovering catholic >>> >>> Wasn't it a bunch of Roman Catholic priests who decided what >>> would be >>> in and what would not be in the Bible? >>> >> >> Pretty much, for the New Testament at least. St Jerome was the guy >> who >> put it together and it was approved initially in 392AD and finally in >> 397AD at a pair of Church Councils. >> >> The Old Testament is different. The Catholic Church and the Orthodox >> Churches use the Septaguint Canon, which originated between 300 and >> 100 >> BC and was in common use amongst hebrews until after 200AD, when >> Jewish >> use moved towards the Masoretic Canon, which is the basis for the >> shorter Protestant Old Testament and dates in it's full form to >> between >> 700 and 1000AD. Note the Catholic Church uses their translation of >> the >> Septaguint Canon, part of the Vulgate Bible, while the Orthodox >> Churches >> are split between the Vulgate and the original Septaguint texts in >> Greek. >> >> The 7 books in the Septaguint that aren't used by the Protestant >> Churches are the Deuterocanonical Books, originally written in Greek. >> These are often confused with the Apocrypha, which are the >> approcimately >> 150 books which claim to be Canonical for the New Testament. The >> Catholic Church determined them to not be Canonical, but they do fall >> into other categories (From outright blasphemy to being considered >> works >> of the 'Doctors of the Church', the great theological writers of the >> Catholic Church). >> >> It's interesting to note that Luther did not accept the traditional >> New >> Testament, notably referring to 2 James as 'an epistle of straw'. He >> attempted unsuccessfully to have 7 books removed from common use. All >> were from the post-Acts section of the New Testament. >> >> Yeah, I researched this a fair bit a while back, out of historical >> interest. >> >> -Adam >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
