I’m just saying that maybe we should have the books in our Bibles
NATHAN,
1. You can have ANY book you want.
2. NO ONE is telling any publishing house what they may or may not put in a tome with the word "BIBLE" printed on the cover in genuine imitation gold letters. No one. Certainly no one here at CH.
3. You seem to be very angry at some unidentified publishing house and perhaps at your pastor and/or church and/or denomination because you THEORIZE (it seems with zero evidence) that they forbid you to read some books. Okay. But NO ONE HERE has forbidden you to read
anything. When will you realize that? Ever? Take your anger to those you (probably wrongly) feel are forbidding you to read something.
4. No one
can take OUT what is not IN.
When will that dawn on you? You keep insisting that some (never identified) corpus of books USED to be "IN" the collection that The Ruling Body of all Christianity officially/formally declared to be the inerrant, fully/equally canonical, divinely-inscripturated words of God... and that "someone" (you won't identify who) repudiated The Ruling Body of Christianity and its Decision. You're wrong. You are just plain WRONG. And obviously, you don't care because you haven't indication that you docilicly accept ANY Ruling Body in Christianity.
that the early church had in theirs.
Wrong.
NEVER did The Early Church declare what is or is not Scripture. True, a few INDIVIDUAL, SINGULAR persons gave their
opinions as to what is the inerrant, fully/equally canonical, divinely-inscripturated words of God. But brother, individual Christians are not The Early Church. Think. And yes, there are 3 or 4 regional, local, non-authoritative, NOT ecumenical synods that also did this, but no such meeting was or is The Early Church. The
MOST that can be said (and it's really stretching things) is that the Early Church spoke in 7 Ecumenical Councils. But NONE of those said a WORD about what is or is not Scripture and certainly never decided anything about that. The Early Church never put anything IN the Bible. You seem to hold to an absurd, silly MYTH of some "Evangelicals" that God sent out this mass email in 33 AD with the list of all the Books that are Scripture... everyone got the email.... everyone so accepted those (and only those) books listed in God's email... It's a pure MYTH.
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