[Hiram Sedai]

I couldn't help myself.

It was humans that decided what was canonized scripture, what was Apocrypha, and what was the pseodopygrapha. It was humans that kept the 66 books and decided that they were the "Word". I have much difficulty with that.

I can accept that perhaps the Apostles and Disciples had the guidance of God when they wrote things. But it's difficult for me to accept that a counsel of very fallible people without Divine help transliterated what they read into their languages and threw away things that did not fit into what they believed to be true such as gnostic writings and the like.

Sorry, much of this comes from an American Baptist upbringing. You see, when a person is raised to believe that both God and the Word of God are the same being...faith becomes difficult. When one is seemingly tainted, the other is too.

What then, is "God breathed"? Which translation? If NIV is closest to the "truth" then what is the truth?

[ 12-05-2002, 12:38 AM: Message edited by: Hiram Sedai ]