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Post by Soulfyre on Dec 8, 2004 15:53:04 GMT -5
Here is the place to ask questions, counter assertions, express dissent, and discuss A Harmonius Advent. God bless, Matthew (soulfyre)  |
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Post by melinky on Dec 8, 2004 20:51:22 GMT -5
Great idea Matthew! My Sunday school class is beginning a study of some of the lesser-known fact concerning the birth of Jesus, plus my Disciple Bible Study group will be studying the events leading up to His birth. This should be a really good month for study.
Bring on the info!
Melinda
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Post by melinky on Dec 21, 2004 10:22:32 GMT -5
Okay, here's a question. Of course we are all familiar with the gospel accounts of the birth, life and crucifixion of Jesus. Are there other accounts of these events that are not included in the Bible as we know it today. I'm thinking of books similar to those found in the Apocrypha.
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Post by Soulfyre on Dec 21, 2004 20:32:59 GMT -5
Okay, here's a question. Of course we are all familiar with the gospel accounts of the birth, life and crucifixion of Jesus. Are there other accounts of these events that are not included in the Bible as we know it today. I'm thinking of books similar to those found in the Apocrypha. Good question. There are in fact books which purport to be accounts of these events, or of events in Mary's life, or Jesus' childhood, or acts of the apostles, or epistles which were not included in the Bible. The reasons for their lack of inclusion as part of the "canon" of scripture are basically that the leaders of the early church considered them spurious, false in their allegations and doctrine, often with equally false attribution (referred to as "pseudepigraphical") to apostles or early followers of Jesus Christ in an attempt to lend them an unworthy credence. Such books as the Gospel of Thomas were clearly Gnostic writings which attempted to give a Gnostic spin to Christianity. Of course, there are those, such as the members of the "Jesus Seminar" (which in many ways is really more of an "anti-Jesus" seminar), whose "hermeneutic of suspicion" alleges that the early church intentionally subverted the truth in order to impose a rigid, exclusionary, patriarchal system. History and Old Testament scripture invalidate this assertion, but that doesn't prevent the Jesus Seminar from proposing their apostasy as truth. God bless and keep you, Matthew (soulfyre) |
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