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Posted by Daniel B. Wallace on 17 March 2013 in Contemporary Issues, Early Christianity, New Testament Studies,Theology
The ancient church sent representatives to the great councils who would make decisions that the churches agreed were to be binding on all. These ancient councils especially hammered out doctrinal issues. And today, all branches of Christendom embrace the decisions and viewpoints of these universal councils as at least good guidelines on what constitutes orthodoxy, if not fully authoritative. There is one key exception to this: theliberal Protestant branch of the church rejects these councils because it rejects the divinity and bodily resurrection of Christ. And the council of nineteen? I cannot speak for all of them, but a good portion of them at least are adamantly against Christ’s deity, his bodily resurrection, his atoning death, the Trinity, and that the Bible has any kind of authority in doctrinal matters.
Apostolicity meant that a book had to be written by an apostle or an associate of an apostle if it was to be included in the New Testament. Practically speaking, this meant that any document written after the end of the first century was automatically disqualified. This is why the Muratorian Canon—the first orthodox canon list, composed in the late second century—rejected the Shepherd of Hermas as authoritative, even though it considered it to be very beneficial to Christians. Further, any book that was known to be a forgery was rejected by the ancient church. Not one of the thirteen books proposed by the council of nineteen was written by the person it is ascribed to. The ancient church would—and often did—immediately reject such books because of their spurious nature. The test of apostolicity alone thus disqualifies all thirteen newly discovered books. Relatively speaking, almost all of these newly discovered books should also be callednew books.
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One Response to 76 Nuwe Nuwe Testament?
2013/03/20 at 21:01
Dankie Herman, dat jy waghond gespeel het en ons hiervan bewus gemaak het. Wel, al wat ek kan sê is dat daar interessante tye is wat voorlê. Ek weet mens wil dadelik op jou agterpote staan en reageer, maar ek wonder hoeveel reaksie regtig gaan nodig wees? Gaan die uitgewers en ondersteuners nie tot ‘n mate staatmaak op christene se hewige reaksie om die boek onder die publiek se aandag te bring nie. Ek herinner my nog sterk aan die olifant wat ‘n muis gebaar het situasie rondom die evangelie van Thomas, en ou George Claassen se beweging Skeptics SA wat vir n week lank in die nuus was omdat hulle land en sand met die hof wou dreig om godsdiens uit die skole te verband en toe het mens niks meer van hulle gehoor nie. Kan iemand nog onthou wie was Deon Maas en hoe negatief hy was? So gedink. Persoonlik dink ek liberale gelowiges se son is besig om te sak in SA..