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RE: The Truth about Religion

in #religion8 years ago (edited)

I'm afraid not. That's more Dan Brown Fiction from the DaVinci Code novel.
Seven church councils were held over hundreds of years and they debated many things. Those who compiled the canon (list of books in the Bible) were church leaders throughout those ages. The simple test for inclusion in the canon were "does this document have a clear audit trail back to an apostle?" This is called due diligence What would you substitute as a process for deciding which of many candidates were real?

The apocrypha did not have such an audit trail back to an apostle, as hundreds of church leaders agreed each time it was discussed. So it got left out in every meeting of church leaders until the counter reformation when the Catholic church added to answer the Protestant claims that they were making up teachings not found in the Bible as accepted for 1500 years by that time.

And that's just the New Testament. The Old Testament dates back another 2000 years and was substantially complete by 400 BC. It was placed in a cave time capsule around 200 BC and discovered in 1947 proving that it had not changed in over 2000 years.