Bible Poll

[Catholic Dude]

At the request of some forum members I was asked to make a poll asking where the Bible came from.

This poll is all about collecting data, not debate.

Please vote to what you feel, not what someone else tells you. Also if there is not an answer up there you like vote "other"

Definition of Bible:
The 66 books/letters collected in one big book
Example of a Bible: the King James Version Bible

So the question is as follows:

Where did the Bible come from? In other words how did those 66 books find their way into one big Book so that at a moment in time a person was holding the complete 66 book Bible?

Please vote-

 

[ClementofRome]

Those responses are all loaded. Looks like trolling to me. I voted "other."

 

[Cajun Huguenot]

It was pretty long and complicated process (lead by the Holy Spirit).

Those of you interested in reading on this subject, I can highly recommend two very good books:The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance by Bruce Metzger and The Canon of Scripture by FF Bruce.

These are fine scholarly works that will prove beneficial to ALL Christians.


Dominus vobiscum,
Kenith

 

[Cajun Huguenot]

Oh. I voted the Church did the work.

Coram Deo,
Kenith

 

[OWEN7]

I voted church, although it seems to me that the answers were entirely too simplistic. It was a bit more complicated than the church gathering up the writings into one book, don't ya think?

 

[CoffeeSwirls]

That's why I voted "other" The underlying aspect of that answer is this:
Does the church define the scriptures or do the scriptures define the church? Who has primacy?

 

[OWEN7]

That's why I voted "other" The underlying aspect of that answer is this:
Does the church define the scriptures or do the scriptures define the church? Who has primacy?

exactly, and that opens up a whole new can of worms......

I know Catholics like to tell us protestants/reformationists that we are being hypocritical because we accept the bible as canon--but you know, not everything about the Catholic church is/was bad.

So what does it prove to say the church put the bible together? No much, IMO.

 

[Cajun Huguenot]

exactly, and that opens up a whole new can of worms......

I know Catholics like to tell us protestants/reformationists that we are being hypocritical because we accept the bible as canon--but you know, not everything about the Catholic church is/was bad.

So what does it prove to say the church put the bible together? No much, IMO.

When the Bible was formed our spiritual ancestors were part of the one Holy Catholic Church. That church divided in the 11th century and the western half divided again in the 16th century.

Today the church is splintered. Rome would like to claim all that happens before 1517 to belongs to her alone. That is not correct. Most Protestants still hold to the Apostles and NIcene Creeds. We still say the creeds and still hold to the Bible of the Holy Catholic Church. Which we are part of, as are Rome and the Eastern Churches.

Coram Deo,
Kenith

 

[Catholic Dude]

IM just collecting data here, I tried to be clear on my question and options.
p.s. one of the people who requested I make this poll was Calvinist.

There is no need to explain yourself if you dont feel like it.

 

[OWEN7]

When the Bible was formed our spiritual ancestors were part of the one Holy Catholic Church. That church divided in the 11th century and the western half divided again in the 16th century.

Today the church is splintered. Rome would like to claim all that happens before 1517 to belongs to her alone. That is not correct. Most Protestants still hold to the Apostles and NIcene Creeds. We still say the creeds and still hold to the Bible of the Holy Catholic Church. Which we are part of, as are Rome and the Eastern Churches.

Coram Deo,
Kenith

I agree!

 

[OWEN7]

IM just collecting data here, I tried to be clear on my question and options.
p.s. one of the people who requested I make this poll was Calvinist.

There is no need to explain yourself if you dont feel like it.

sorry.....not meaning to start anything....just thought the answers were a bit vague....

forgive me.....

 

[CoffeeSwirls]

The Bible fell from Heaven in 1611!

 

[OWEN7]

LOL,

[OFF TOPIC TO OP]
Oh my Gosh that reminded me of an advertisement that's been taken out in a little local paper time and again....it's this big advertisement for people to start a church that is dedicated to only using the KJ1611 version as all others are satan spawn. I'll have to hunt it down sometime and post it here. It's worth a good laugh,( and a feeling of sadness at the legality of some people..)

 

[Cajun Huguenot]

LOL,

[OFF TOPIC TO OP]
Oh my Gosh that reminded me of an advertisement that's been taken out in a little local paper time and again....it's this big advertisement for people to start a church that is dedicated to only using the KJ1611 version as all others are satan spawn. I'll have to hunt it down sometime and post it here. It's worth a good laugh,( and a feeling of sadness at the legality of some people..)

I wonder if they realise that the original Authorised (King James) Version included the Apocrypha. The Apocrypha (Deuterocanonical for our Roman Catholic friends) were placed between the Old and New Testaments in the original 1611 version and for a number of editions there after.. I have an exact replica of the original 1611 KJV and the Apocrypha is there pretty as you please.

I bet that would not go well with most KJV only people.

It is a silly notion to be KJV only.

Dominus vobiscum,
Kenith

 

[CoffeeSwirls]

They have their view of infallable scripture as something that has been around for under 400 years. I guess the early church must have done something different. Perhaps PDL...

 

[5solas]

I voted "other"... because I am convinced that the Holy Spirit composed the Bible (the church merely collecting it)...