(September 18, 2012 at 5:08 pm)festive1 Wrote: Doesn't this all go back to the Council of Nicea where a bunch of guys sat around and decided which books would become the Christian canon? The whole process negates any "divine" influence upon the texts that were written. What if the Dead Sea Scrolls were the books that were actually divinely inspired? What if this scrap of parchment was a book that was divinely inspired? But they were left out because of the aforementioned council that decided what the "truth" was... And then they tried their damnedest to rid the world of any non-canonical books... If I was a god-fearing Christian, I couldn't get over all the editing and revisions that occurred.
Oh ye of little faith....
Obviously, god guided the council to pick the right books. The holy spirit moved their hearts so that every member voted for the books that were actually divinely inspired and decided to weed out the ones that that were not. How else would you account for the unanimous agreement on which books to include? Unanimous, that is, except for the few heathens who were being influenced by Satan.
