reply to post by Jkd Up
the Old Testiment was mentioned in the Dead Sea Scrolls,
therefore validating it's historical exsistance. However,
the New Testiment was not mentioned at any time before King Constantine.
Reason being, it didn't exist prior.
What is known by christians as the "old testment" is the jewish
Tanakh. It wasn't until the
council of Nicea in 325AD that work began to consolidate the various writings into one
book, dismiss
the ones they didn't like, and call it the bible.
To phrase it indelicately, the jews had their own books for a long time, and then one day the christians came along and stapled their own works to the
end of a collection of jewish writings, and called it their own.
Does this stike anyone following the New Testiment as odd?
I personally find it far more amusing to hear christians disapprove of mormonism. Because the mormons basically did the same thing: they took the
bible and said "Oh, yeah...that's true, BUT!!! Here's the
book of mormon. It's more
current, so it takes precedence."
[edit on 22-10-2009 by LordBucket]