[CS-FSLUG] QOTW #8: Canon Questions

[Aaron Patrick Lehmann]

Job, Genesis, the Prophets

Aaron Lehmann

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:50:15AM -0500, Stephen J. McCracken wrote:
> 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
> 
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