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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2010 21:07:33 GMT -5
What's the deal with the "Lost Gospels"?
Is the King James translation incomplete or were the books included in the Bible hand-picked by the politicians/church leaders of that day?
What say you?
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Post by momo on Oct 11, 2010 10:04:03 GMT -5
there are people who say king james required certain things to be added and omitted to serve his own agenda
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Post by truisam on Oct 11, 2010 22:09:49 GMT -5
Are we talking bout the old or new King James,
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Post by sandraj on Oct 12, 2010 13:26:55 GMT -5
To my knowledge, except for the translation, the original KJ and the new KJ both hold the same amount of books. However, I'm thinking God had a lot more to do w/the choosing of what books would be in His word than ol' James did. After all, we either believe it's inspired, or we don't. And if we do, then we accept the fact that God inspired the choosing of the books which would best minister to us.
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Post by ratman on Oct 16, 2010 9:44:57 GMT -5
There are many theories behind this, but I will only touch a couple of them as they are the hottest ones.
Supposedly, King James had several books omitted because of time constraint. The Bibles of that time were hand written and they took a long time to write each one despite the many monks that were working on the project.
Also, the only ones during that time period that could actually possess a copy of the Bible were those that could afford to buy a hand written copy, thus not very many were sold except mainly to royalty and to churches. The general population was so poor and poverty-ridden that they had to rely on the sermons of the church to gain their biblical knowledge.
The second theory is that the leading Catholic church of that time had certain books omitted because they claim the books were irrelevant to the overall messages of the Bible.
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Post by mksred on Oct 16, 2010 14:49:56 GMT -5
Tho books you are talking about Rat, aren't those called the "Apocrypha" ? There are 11 works found so far, but it is believed that there may be 2 or 3 more. This link has good information on the KJV and the missing books www.interfaith.org/christianity/apocrypha/ |
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Post by blade on Oct 16, 2010 15:31:46 GMT -5
An Apocrypha can be found in many used book stores.
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Post by ratman on Oct 17, 2010 7:31:50 GMT -5
Tho books you are talking about Rat, aren't those called the "Apocrypha" ? There are 11 works found so far, but it is believed that there may be 2 or 3 more. This link has good information on the KJV and the missing books www.interfaith.org/christianity/apocrypha/Hmm..the first I've heard of this by that name. Will have to check it out and see if this is the same ones that I have seen in the past. |
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Post by moderateamerican on Nov 5, 2010 17:10:33 GMT -5
Many books were omitted because they did not meet with what the Council of Nicea decided should be in the Bible. This council was commissioned in AD. 325 by the Emperor Constantine who wanted to strengthen his empire by uniting all Christians under one central church loyal to him. The church would have destroyed any known copies of books deemed inappropriate.
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Post by Cyberman on Nov 6, 2010 1:23:04 GMT -5
I think the main reason they were omitted is because none of them were written in the Hebrew language.
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Post by moderateamerican on Nov 8, 2010 7:52:31 GMT -5
I think the main reason they were omitted is because none of them were written in the Hebrew language. Who knows if any ever existed in Hebrew? The church had a nasty habit of destroying that which they disapproved of. Just like the codex's of the Mayan empire, I imagine any religious text discovered by the church which didn't exactly mirror the beliefs of those in power at the time were destroyed. |
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