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0:11Christians believe that the Bible is
0:13revelation from God and base their
0:15beliefs around the words of scriptures
0:18unfortunately most just accept that the
0:20Bible is the complete word of God
0:22without even knowing how when by whom
0:25and by what Authority it came into
0:28existence in order to be absolutely sure
0:30that the Bible is God's word and to
0:33appreciate its message we need to
0:35understand its history and how God
0:38through the Holy Spirit gave us his
0:40inspired message the Bible Greek word
0:43meaning books is God's Divine Love
0:45Letter to us it is the history of God's
0:48family that chose the fall and return to
0:50God by his people the Bible is the
0:53inspired words of God written in the
0:55words of men the complete Bible that we
0:58have today was written approximately
1:00between 2,000 BC and 100 AD the first
1:03half of the Bible is called the Old
1:05Testament because it was written before
1:07the coming of Christ and it contained
1:09the story of God's people and how they
1:12became his chosen family the Old
1:14Testament tells us of the series of
1:16covenants that God made with his people
1:19leading up to the birth of his son Jesus
1:21Christ most of the Old Testament was
1:23written in Hebrew because it was
1:25composed by Jews for the Jewish people
1:28the Old Testament remained in Hebrew
1:29Hebrew until the Babylonian exile when
1:32Jews left Palestine to settle in other
1:34areas as a result the Hebrew language
1:37was replaced by Greek as the main
1:39language for Jews living outside of
1:41Palestine approximately 280 BC the
1:45world's greatest library in Alexandria
1:48obtained books from the Known World
1:50translating them into Greek at this time
1:52the Hebrew Old Testament was translated
1:54by 70 rabbis into the Greek language and
1:57was called the Septuagint the Latin word
2:00meaning 70 the septu aent contained 46
2:04books this Greek translation was the
2:07acknowledged Bible of the Jews and was
2:09the version used by Christ and his
2:11disciples we know that the
2:20septuagesimo of the New Testament over
2:23300 refer to the Septuagint and not the
2:26Hebrew version of scriptures just one
2:29example of this is from Mark 7 6-8 where
2:32Jesus is discussing human tradition he
2:35quotes a version of the passage from
2:37Isaiah
2:382913 found only in the
2:40Septuagint Judaism did not make an
2:43official decision about which books
2:45belong to its Bible until approximately
2:47the end of the first century Jews from a
2:50rabinal school in jvna met around year
2:5380 and among other things discussed the
2:56cannon these leaders rejected seven
2:58books from the septu
3:00and established the Hebrew Cannon this
3:03definition of scriptures was made after
3:05most of the apostles were dead and much
3:07of the New Testament was written these
3:10leaders were extremely anti-christian
3:13they also rejected the New Testament
3:15writings at the time the seven books
3:17that were rejected by these rabbis were
3:19Tobit Judith one and two macbes wisdom
3:24ecclesiasticus burck and portions of
3:27Daniel and Esther this still did not
3:30settle the Pharisee Cannon since not all
3:32Jews agreed with or even knew about the
3:34decision at jvna rabbis continued to
3:37debated into the second and 3dr
3:39centuries even today the Ethiopian Jews
3:43use the Same Old Testament as Catholics
3:46the New Testament was written
3:48approximately between 50 and 100 AD
3:51after Christ ascended to heaven the
3:54early churches did not have the complete
3:56New Testament writings to follow as we
3:58do today but used the oral tradition of
4:00the Apostles to know the truth that was
4:02taught by Jesus as well as the Old
4:04Testament scriptures during that time
4:07however there were hundreds of writings
4:09all claiming to be inspired circulating
4:12among the early churches a few examples
4:15were the The Shepherd of Hermes Gospel
4:18of Thomas acts of John acts of Thomas
4:21acts of Paul and The Apocalypse of Peter
4:24there were an estimated 50 versions of
4:26the gospels and 22 acts in circulation
4:31unfortunately there was not unanimous
4:33consensus among the churches and the
4:35church fathers on which writings were
4:38actually inspired a study of early
4:40Christian history shows that there was a
4:42considerable disagreement among
4:44Christians until the issue of the Canon
4:46was finally settled some early
4:48Christians said that the Book of
4:50Revelations didn't belong in the Canon
4:52God allowed the inspired writings to be
4:54collected into the cannon of the Bible
4:56under the Divine guidance of the Holy
4:58Spirit he worked through the the
4:59authoritative Catholic Church that
5:01Christ established and allowed them to
5:03determine which books were to be
5:04considered inspired scriptures the
5:07church met in councils similar to what
5:09is described in Acts 15 and made the
5:12decision of what books to accept as
5:14inspired a council met in hippo in 393
5:17ad where it selected the 27 books of the
5:20New Testament and ratified the 46 books
5:23of the Old Testament again in 397 ad the
5:27Council of Carthage confirmed and
5:29approved the decrees of the previous
5:31Council Pope Innocent I in 405 ad
5:35approved this African code presently the
5:3727 books of the New Testament and the 46
5:40books of the Old Testament have been
5:42affirmed seven times by a general
5:44Council and three times by an ecumenical
5:46council as a result of these councils
5:49the canonized Bible contains 73
5:52books we have no other assurance that
5:55the Books of Moses the four gospels and
5:58the other books are the True Word of God
6:01but by the cannon of the Catholic Church
6:03St Augustine for the next 1,100 years
6:08the Canon of the Christian Bible
6:10contained 73 books in the 1500s when
6:14Martin Luther rejected the authority of
6:15the Catholic church and started the
6:17Reformation he decided that seven books
6:20in the Old Testament were not on the
6:22same level as the other books in the
6:23Bible he also questioned the inspiration
6:26of four books of the New Testament James
6:29Jude Hebrews and
6:30Revelation today there is a difference
6:33in the number of books and bibles
6:35belonging to Catholics and Protestants
6:37the Catholic Bible contains the original
6:4073 books that were canonized in the 4th
6:42Century while the Protestant Bible
6:44followed Luther's concern of the
6:46inspiration of the seven books in the
6:48Old Testament as a result Protestants
6:51eventually omitted seven books from the
6:53Old Testament and now have only 66 books
6:56in their version however it is
6:59interesting to note that Martin Luther
7:01in the 16th chapter of his commentary on
7:03St John noted we are obliged to yield
7:07many things to the papists the Catholics
7:10that they possess the word of God which
7:12we received from them otherwise we
7:15should have know nothing at all about it
7:17no wonder Catholics find it strange that
7:20some people would rather put their faith
7:21on the authority of Martin Luther than
7:24on the Church of the Living God the
7:26pillar and ground of
7:28Truth
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