What if…? Many Biblical Scholars agree that the Biblical Scriptures were written by many writers, some not even present at the time of the life of Jesus. Some books written centuries AFTER the death of Christ. The fundamentalist/Evangelical will say, It is all inspired writing of God. It is common knowledge that when the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity, his involvement created The First Council of Nicaea. The first ecumenical council of the Church. Most significantly, it resulted in the first uniform Christian doctrine, called the Nicene Creed. With the creation of the creed, a precedent was established for subsequent local and regional councils of Bishops (Synods) to create statements of belief and canons of doctrinal orthodoxy—the intent being to define unity of beliefs for the whole of Christendom. In short, they debated for over a month to decide what was pure Holy Scripture and what was heresy (opinion profoundly at odds with what is generally accepted). My question: What if there really was no 400 years of silence and just Scriptures that were removed? Some scholars say that some of the Scriptures were written under aliases, under the names of the Apostles and it was not really the Apostles themselves, calling the writings, Pseudepigrapha - writing that is inscribed with a lie. Many of the books of that time were not canonized (sanctioned by church authority). What if there are missing Scriptures? Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the New York Times bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus and Jesus, Interrupted. His latest book, Forged: Writing in the Name of God -- Why the Bibles Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are, is now available from HarperOne. #Justhinkaboutit.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 12:45:03 +0000
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