From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!inuxd!arlan
Newsgroups: net.religion
Title: Re: There is no War on net.religion
Article-I.D.: inuxd.260
Posted: Fri Feb 18 12:58:13 1983
Received: Sun Feb 20 02:06:04 1983
References: floyd.1181

While we are civilly considering why Jews do not accept the (so-called) New
Testament, why don't we also consider why (so-called) Christians don't accept
the later Revelations--The Book Of Mormon, for example?  Surely, everyone is
always interested in the latest update on the Holy Word?  Or don't you all
have a loose-leaf Bible?

(In the small amount of reading I have done about the origin of the New
Testament--The Council Of Nicea, etc.--I have come to the conclusion that
no one today knows which, if any, of those stories should have been 
accepted into the Bible.  Are there not books that Catholics accept that
Protestants don't?  Were not political affiliations the reasons why certain
books (and certain contemporary believers) were thrown out or worse?  Did
not the Emperor and his consort help decide what was holy?

Answer me these questions, showing that God maintained a strict control over
His Word, and I'll start to believe your New Testament.  If you can't answer
them, you fundamentalists, then never again wave your 20th-century translations
of 4th-century political interpretations of 1st-century philosophy at me,
claiming that they are infallible and perfect.

--arlan andrews/american bell/indy