What's your favorite canon?

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by Timmy

What's your favorite list of books of the Bible, and why?

Thought about making a poll, but there are too many to choose from.

1. Protestant
2. Protestant, without the ones Martin Luther didn't like
3. Roman Catholic
4. Ethiopian Orthodox
5. Eastern Orthodox
6. Armenian Apostolic (has a catchy name, don't you think?)
7. Coptic Orthodox
8. Syriac Orthodox
9. Greek Orthodox
10. Slavonic Orthodox
11. Georgian Orthodox
12. Other (I know this list isn't complete. Find another one you like, or make you own!)

Originally Posted by Timmy

Bump. With edits.

Tell ya what. Skip the "why". Just let us know what the Word of God consists of. What is the divinely decreed Table of Contents? Which group of Christians, if any, is right?

Unless you think it's not an important question to answer.

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by Timmy

Tell ya what. Skip the "why". Just let us know what the Word of God consists of. What is the divinely decreed Table of Contents? Which group of Christians, if any, is right?

Unless you think it's not an important question to answer.

By the way, I should have included another possible choice:

13. Marcion's canon

Basically, Marcion discarded the OT, and put together the first (it is said) NT can.... er... collection of divinely inspired books.

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by Timmy

By the way, I should have included another possible choice:

13. Marcion's canon

Basically, Marcion discarded the OT, and put together the first (it is said) NT can.... er... collection of divinely inspired books.

Hmmm. I wonder. Could the people who modified that first Christian Bible be said to have "added to God's Word"?

[bbyrd009]

Originally Posted by Timmy

Hmmm. I wonder. Could the people who modified that first Christian Bible be said to have "added to God's Word"?

Gee, ya think? "Let's just change this Commandment," lol.

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by bbyrd009

Gee, ya think? "Let's just change this Commandment," lol.

Is that a vote for Marcion?

[bbyrd009]

Originally Posted by Timmy

Is that a vote for Marcion?

Sorry, don't know that one.
And, I already voted for "All/none of the above."

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by bbyrd009

Sorry, don't know that one.
And, I already voted for "All/none of the above."

Yeah, I guess. But that's why I started asking one by one. I would think you have some books that you believe are inspired by God, perhaps infallible (perhaps only in the original MSS), and believe that some other are not inspired by God and perhaps not infallible.

I John?

The Lord of the Rings?

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by bbyrd009

Sorry, don't know that one.
And, I already voted for "All/none of the above."

Oh, and Marcion is said to have been the first to put together what we would call a Christian "Bible". He omitted, I believe, the entire Old Testament. (Didn't like that God, and thought Jesus came to destroy him.) Had only 11 books: a version of the Gospel of Luke and some of Paul's letters.

Irenaeus later added to God's Word, thinking that there just had to be four gospels, seeing as how there were four winds and four corners of the earth. Yeah, that makes sense. And since the powers that be decided Marcion was a heretic (a.k.a. "doesn't think like we do"), they figured it was OK to modify his Bible. (Of course, some people later called Irenaeus a heretic, but what're ya gonna do? Have to cut and run, some time! )