TheNoNamedOne
12-17-2007, 02:59 PM
Early Christianity was fracturing quickly with lots of holy scriptures being said to be the word of god. Different churches throughout the Mediterranian area were espousing different doctrinal beliefs. Roman Emperror Constantine 1 understood the power of how the Roman world could be united with Christianity, and besides from his "conversion", he invited various Christian leaders to Rome to create the Nicene Creed and subsequent canons for the orthodoxy.
Power, politics, and prestige, pride, greed certainly must have been part of the mix with different figures wanting their beliefs to be put into the canons. In the end, the Bible is a compiliation of separate "books" brought together from factions debating with human "reason" and not a supernatural coming together of words -- as if found in a cave or on a mountaintop surrounded in fire after having been lit by lightening (how miraculous would that have been had authenticated witnesses attested to such!).
Indeed, even today some churches have different Bible chapters than others i.e. different gospels still looked to as legitimate.
So, if you are a Christian, why do you readily accept as the Word of God by those who decided that in very humanistic ways?
What a boring and not so supernatural image we have of robed men sitting in dank dark candlelit chambers arguing amongst themselves.
Power, politics, and prestige, pride, greed certainly must have been part of the mix with different figures wanting their beliefs to be put into the canons. In the end, the Bible is a compiliation of separate "books" brought together from factions debating with human "reason" and not a supernatural coming together of words -- as if found in a cave or on a mountaintop surrounded in fire after having been lit by lightening (how miraculous would that have been had authenticated witnesses attested to such!).
Indeed, even today some churches have different Bible chapters than others i.e. different gospels still looked to as legitimate.
So, if you are a Christian, why do you readily accept as the Word of God by those who decided that in very humanistic ways?
What a boring and not so supernatural image we have of robed men sitting in dank dark candlelit chambers arguing amongst themselves.