Godschild Wrote:Why do you believe that the additions are a contamination to scriptures, if those few additions did not hold up to the rest of scripture they would not appear in scriptures,An irrelevant suggestion because the matter of the fact is that they are in there.
Quote:why, because the whole book would not have been accepted.
Then why do you and I have Bibles? Clearly the individual books weren't thrown out but embraced.
Quote:Why do you think so many writings were not included into scripture, they contained ideas that were not supported by scripture.
And how would you know what scripture actually was in those times? Put yourself in their shoes: there were some 20 gospels floating around (I don't know the exact number but I came across the list once). 'Scripture' wasn't defined until the canon was made up which resulted in the Bible that you and I own. Therefore to say some gospels didn't 'support scripture' doesn't make sense.
Quote:There are many books written today about Jesus and they are not contamination of scriptures they are teaching aids.
Agreed.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
