Monday, June 25, 2007

The Meaning of God's Words

For people who believe in God, God's words mean truth. In the light of history, those must be in line with historical events. So I found two characteristics on the selection of canon after the Reformation. The work regarded as religious novel -that is fictitious or showing historical anachronism like the Book of Judith, those must be excluded. All other apocryphal books were somehow backed by historical accuracy, but they all were probably written in Hebrew first, but their originals were unable to be found. Only Greek texts were available, in those cases they were excluded from the Protestant canon. In short, the Reformation by Luther was a bold attempt to challenge the authority already firmly established by Roman basically and Greek, but personally I feel those excluded except for the cases like the Book of Judith are somehow worth while to at least take a look at.

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