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Originally Posted by Nitehawk013
I tend to think of "inspired" as God moved a man to write somethign God dealt with him to write. I don't take "Inspired" to mean God took control fo the man and made him write precise things like he was taking dictation from the Almighty.
Another interesting discussion I liek to think about is whether the canon is all the scripture we were really meant to have. After all, it was the majority who defined orthodox and heretical and decided what was apocryphal. Yes some of the apocryphal stuff is nonsense and completely contradicts the overall body of scripture, but others fit well. Some, such as Enoch, are quoted by our own Bible. Paul seems to have felt Enoch's writings were authoritative, yet it is left out of canon. It has some hard to believe stuff in it, but only becase we are conditions to refuse to believe that angels corrupted themselves by mating with women and teaching them "charms" or spells.
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I was told by an Evangelist that some of those writings might be "inspired" by God but not meant for the general population or for "preaching". But rather they are for those who wish to personally delve deeper into spiritual understanding. He believes angels took physical form and took human women, breaking God's ordinance of separation between man and angel. He might believe Enoch is authorative.
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