Sunday, January 22, 2017

The Canonization of the Old and New Testaments

When we speak about commandment of sacred scripture, the word principle has a simple signification. It means the inclination of books blockadeed in scripture, the disposition of books authentic as worthy to be included in the sacred writings of a worshipping community. Wikipedia say that jurisprudence is the appoint of books considered to be authoritative scripture by a particular(prenominal) religious community. Christians powerfulness say that decree is the harken of writings recognized by the church as a Divine revelation. The word canon came from the Greek word, meaning die hard or measuring stick. And in Greek it is a perch or a faculty to make things straight. The word canon was first used by Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria. Athanasius was the most prominent theologist in the fourth century, his list of canon scriptures was a ingredient of his letter Thirty-Ninth festive Epistle of A.D. 367. He supports the image of the canon of scriptures by the council of Laodicea. But he was adding some books that were not accepted by the council. But earlier the word list  came to be used by the church, the meaning of it in the early Church was used into another sense, they called it the harness of trustfulness or the expression of truth. But when the scriptures were canonized they said that the scripture itself is the rule of faith. The repress of the canon deals not besides with history but besides with faith and holiness. For Christian theology is always concerned with history, special history in which theology is at work, history that has pressing meaning for us as we attend to it in faith and see divinity fudge at work in it to encounter his purpose. The canon talks a theological issues, it implies that God did something in the History. It brings out the idea that God was active in the prayer and production of these writings.\n\nClosed principle\nNothing can be added and nothing can be taken away this is the idea of a closed canon. on that point were many questions regarding to the canonization of the scriptures. For example, why do some Bibles contain m...

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