[CS-FSLUG] QOTW #8: Canon Questions

[Stephen J. McCracken]

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 09:28, Josiah Ritchie wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 10:11, Ed Hurst wrote:
> > On Thursday 01 July 2004 01:01, Timothy Butler wrote:
> > > What's your canon in the canon? (That is, if you could only pick one
> > > part of the Bible and make it "yours," what book or section of books
> > > would it be?)
> > 
> > hold me strongest. Still, I cannot bring myself to suggest using the 
> > term "canon" in a personal application. While I won't argue or debate, 
> > I bristle at the idea our current canon could be re-examined.
> > 
> hehe, I had a bit of a similar response. :-) I suppose it's related to

I'll add in that I, too, would cringe at the thought that we can pick
and choose parts of the Bible that we like and discard the rest.  If it
were rephrased to what books we might concentrate on, I might concur
with Eduardo with the addition of James, Matthew, and the Pentateuch.

James--It comes from a different view than Paul and sheds light on
several issues through this.  (I might add Peter's letters here, too.)

Matthew--Once again, a slightly different view than John with the
viewpoint of Jesus' life in line with the OT.

Pentateuch--The basis for most of the doctrines in God's dealing with
mankind.

As a side note, one could say that most of the NT books/letters were
commentaries on the doctrines of the OT in light of the revelation
through Jesus.  It could almost be argued that the OT contains all we
need as scripture and our canon could be reduced to the Jewish canon.

sjm