Matthew And Mark Gundry's 'Let The Lion Roar'
Session 1 Reading Response Issue: “Canon”
This week I read all six chapters that were assigned in our text, the lecture notes, as well as Matthew and Mark.
Gundry (2012) writes, “The New Testament canon consists of books accepted by the early church as divinely inspired.” The idea of canon still confuses me a bit and especially because man decided what was divinely inspired and could be put into the Bible. I have a lot of questions running through my head. I believe the majority of them are because I don’t trust people in believing that they don’t have an ulterior motive for doing things that do not benefit themselves. I know that isn’t the best way to think though. I watched a docudrama called “Let the Lion Roar” which was about reformation and the Bible as well. It mentioned that there was a great deception starting with Martin Luther in 1513 and then on to John Calvin in 1536. Luther turned against the Jews when they wouldn’t convert to Christianity and became an anti-Semite. Calvin was an anti-Semite as well. Their message was that the church replaced Israel. So what concerned me, was back then, all the Jewish names for …show more content…
Jesus and other Jews were removed from the Bible. Was removing Jewish names divinely inspired? All the Apostles were Jewish. Did they stop being Jewish to anti-Semites and that is why their writings were retained. So with Christian leaders being anti-Semitic, and the hatred that filled them so profound, how can we know for sure that everything that was supposed to be included in the Bible really is there? We have so much more information today than we did back in the first and second centuries, wouldn’t reviewing all materials again be something worthwhile to make sure that truly everything that should be included, is?
Even though some transcription errors may have occurred while originally copying the different documents and books which make up the New Testament, I have to say that I am relieved that through the work of the textual critics, the errors or ambiguities that are evident and have been found do not detract from our understanding or the efficacy of the teachings.
Because of these textual critics, we have a wide variety of different translations. I love my WordSearch program as it allows me to look at different translations when I am looking at Scripture. I did find another one that I would like to check out. It is the NET. WordSearch is nice, but I like to have the actual books. I am one of those people that like to write and highlight in their Bible because it aids me when looking back trying to find something, but also I retain
more.
I believe that there should be a whole entire other class dedicated to understanding where the Bible came from, how it came to be, and how it has evolved from the beginning. It seems like there is a lot of information, which is not so easily understood, but could be explained better to give people who are not bible scholars an understanding. I personally would love to understand more. I like when things are concrete in my mind so that I know, that I know, that I know. With all this being said and all that I have learned so far, I would like to read some of the books that have not been accepted into the Bible. I definitely want to read the Apocrypha and some of the Subapostolic writings as well.
This week I read all six chapters that were assigned in our text, the lecture notes, as well as Matthew and Mark.
Gundry (2012) writes, “The New Testament canon consists of books accepted by the early church as divinely inspired.” The idea of canon still confuses me a bit and especially because man decided what was divinely inspired and could be put into the Bible. I have a lot of questions running through my head. I believe the majority of them are because I don’t trust people in believing that they don’t have an ulterior motive for doing things that do not benefit themselves. I know that isn’t the best way to think though. I watched a docudrama called “Let the Lion Roar” which was about reformation and the Bible as well. It mentioned that there was a great deception starting with Martin Luther in 1513 and then on to John Calvin in 1536. Luther turned against the Jews when they wouldn’t convert to Christianity and became an anti-Semite. Calvin was an anti-Semite as well. Their message was that the church replaced Israel. So what concerned me, was back then, all the Jewish names for …show more content…
Jesus and other Jews were removed from the Bible. Was removing Jewish names divinely inspired? All the Apostles were Jewish. Did they stop being Jewish to anti-Semites and that is why their writings were retained. So with Christian leaders being anti-Semitic, and the hatred that filled them so profound, how can we know for sure that everything that was supposed to be included in the Bible really is there? We have so much more information today than we did back in the first and second centuries, wouldn’t reviewing all materials again be something worthwhile to make sure that truly everything that should be included, is?
Even though some transcription errors may have occurred while originally copying the different documents and books which make up the New Testament, I have to say that I am relieved that through the work of the textual critics, the errors or ambiguities that are evident and have been found do not detract from our understanding or the efficacy of the teachings.
Because of these textual critics, we have a wide variety of different translations. I love my WordSearch program as it allows me to look at different translations when I am looking at Scripture. I did find another one that I would like to check out. It is the NET. WordSearch is nice, but I like to have the actual books. I am one of those people that like to write and highlight in their Bible because it aids me when looking back trying to find something, but also I retain
more.
I believe that there should be a whole entire other class dedicated to understanding where the Bible came from, how it came to be, and how it has evolved from the beginning. It seems like there is a lot of information, which is not so easily understood, but could be explained better to give people who are not bible scholars an understanding. I personally would love to understand more. I like when things are concrete in my mind so that I know, that I know, that I know. With all this being said and all that I have learned so far, I would like to read some of the books that have not been accepted into the Bible. I definitely want to read the Apocrypha and some of the Subapostolic writings as well.