On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:04:39 -0500 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 10:40:25PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > I don't get the question. God decides what is and is not his > > > word. Lots of people have claimed to write in the name of God. > > > > Ah, but that's the rub, who's deciding what is the real article > > and what isn't? God's not chiming in. You do realize that exactly > > which gospels that would go on to comprise the modern Bible were > > hotly debated centuries after the supposed events took place. > > Debated by men, not God. There are many more which are not > > included. So, why are you not asking what is in those Gospels and > > why men, not God, decided they should not be distributed in the > > definitive collection of Jesus' life? > > > You do realize that the ones that ended up in the Bible were the ones > which were essentially universally agreed up upon, correct? Yes there > was debate. There were people who wanted to subvert the process. > There were people who were misguided. It was once universally agreed that the Earth is the center of the universe. Does that make it true? > However, since I have faith that God was able to create the entire > universe by speaking it into existence, I also have faith that He was > able to preserve His Word. God? Yes. People? No. Please show us the involvement of God himself in preserving his word. And I would rather consider a miracle the survival of those other texts given the (human) effort taken to make them disappear. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
