What's in your Bible?

PloverWing said:

That's an interesting point. A very few readings from the Deuterocanonicals appear in the Episcopal Church's lectionary (parts of Judith, the Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, and Baruch). I'm quite fond of the Prayer of Manassah, as it's a beautiful prayer, but I don't see it in our lectionary anywhere. Esther does make a brief appearance, for us.

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DW1980 said:

No, I mean Jews such as Jesus, the apostles and first Christians - who all used the OT that's in the Protestant bible.

The apocrypha cannot be scripture - there were no prophets to write scripture for 400 years before Christ. Lots of Jewish writings confirm that.

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yeshuasavedme said:

Yes, "to speak" is the root word of Oracle.
Strong's
דָבַר dâbar, daw-bar'; a primitive root; perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue:—answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, × well, × work. Strong's:

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SummaScriptura said:

Historically, there were councils and synods which promulgated lists of the books of the Bible. Unfortunately, not everyone got the memo apparently, because there is no concensus now nor has there ever been on this issue.

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DamianWarS said:

there's a consensus on NT books

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GreekOrthodox said:

But there is NOT a consensus on how the books should be used. Orthodox don't use Revelation in the lectionary. Lutherans traditionally will not base any doctrines based solely on the NT antilegenoma (Hebrews, James, Jude, 2 Peter, 2 John, and 3 John and Revelation). Then you get some evangelicals who seem to have chucked the entire Bible out other than Daniel, Ezekiel and Revelation and that is all they argue about.

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