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No officially defined canon for the holy scriptures existed until the church defined one.
But an informal canon existed in the manuscripts' contents. The Churches commissioned people to create such manuscripts or wealthy patrons did so and in either case, this informal canon which was derived...
I much prefer a 73 book bible over a 66 book one.
But I do own several 66 book bibles, things like the NKJV and NIV, both of which are not available with a full 73 book canon.
But if Protestants want 66 book bibles that's fine with me. At least they have some of the bible to read and that can...
Pilgrim's Progress is a nice work of fiction. Some say Tobit is also a work of God-inspired fiction. But Protestants can do whatever they please with their bibles - printed or electronic.
Catholics will keep the faith that was delivered to them and retain a 73 book canon for sacred scripture.
The Canon of Scripture
It was by the apostolic Tradition that the Church discerned which writings are to be included in the list of the sacred books.
This complete list is called the canon of Scripture. It includes 46 books for the Old Testament (45 if we count Jeremiah and Lamentations as...
That isn't quite right. questioning the use of the deuterocanon for teaching doctrine was debated but inclusion in the bible was the norm. Catholic bibles both before and after the Protestant revolt contained 73 books. Interestingly Protestant bibles also contained more than 66 books after the...
The Lamb and the 144,000
Revelation 14:1And I beheld, and lo a lamb stood upon mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads. 2And I heard a voice from heaven, as the noise of many waters, and as the voice of...
Protestants can do whatever they like with the 66 books that they acknowledge and the others that they call apocryphal. That is a matter for them. Catholics have a 73 book canon of scripture that is well defined and has roots back to early Christian times. In the Catholic church debate and...
Catholic and Orthodox Churches both receive these books as canonical:
Tobit, Judith, parts of Esther, 1& 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, parts of Daniel.
Protestants reject these as non-canonical. Protestant rejection runs deep enough to exclude these books and parts of books from their...
One's personal end may be nigh or not depending on your state of health, age, and happenstance.
The end of this age and all that goes with it may be nigh or not and we simply do not know as Jesus indicated when he said
John 1:1-3 doesn't say that the Word came to earth. That is said in John 1:14.
John 1:1-5 tells the reader that the Word is God and that the Word created everything that was created. The verses also say that Life was in him and that Life was the Light of humanity.