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MineralMan

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5. Well, Paul's letters have huge significance to the Canon.

Mon Nov 26, 2018, 02:08 PM

Nov 2018

After all, Paul was a Roman and the Canon was the Roman version of the Gospels. Who knows what manuscripts were tossed into the fire back in the days when the Canon was being assembled? So much writing to go through. The Biblical Canon we have as a legacy from the past is partly scripture and partly political in nature.

Of course, none of it is contemporaneous with Jesus. It's all what showed up at the end of the Game of Telephone that was being played for a couple of centuries or more. I can hear the committee now, "OK, that stays and this goes." Over and over again.

We know almost nothing, really, except what was deemed useful.

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Here ya go! MineralMan Nov 2018 #8

Thank you Bob Loblaw Nov 2018 #15

My pleasure. MineralMan Nov 2018 #16

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