Here is a website which outlines the history of the canon in stages, although it organizes it in three stages because it only uses my first three stages and leaves out the fourth of the Council of Carthage when the canon was finally approved. It's a nice Protestant website.
Amen brother. It is nice to see you quote Scripture without altering the words. You are learning. Here is some more homework for you: Please refrain from changing "This is my body" to "This represents my body." Thank you.
Human beings are a form of animal. We are animals with the ability to know right from wrong, animals with an immortal soul. We are animals, PLUS. But still animals. We eat, sleep, procreate, need an appropriate environment (shelter for us), respond to threats with fight, flight or freeze, etc.: all animal instincts.
Not from a Biblical perspective. If you read Genesis there is a clear distinction between men and animals. Man is a special being created in the image of God, and we have dominion over the animals.
OK. Jesus is the “door”, but he is not a door in the sense of wood and hinges. What does “body” refer to, if not the flesh of our Lord? In what sense is the word “body” used, if not its literal sense?
I see that fairly often. Another poster started a so-called Sola Scriptura debate not long ago which ended up revolving around the fact that he didn't understand Sola Scriptura at all. I don't think the thread ever got to the point of discussing the doctrine itself, just the OP's misconception of it.
Like I said, we have souls, therefore we are animals PLUS. This is why drugs and stuff can be tested on animals before they are given to human beings -- precisely because we are as similar to animals as animals are to one another. Notice that God made all the animals, including humans, on the same day.
Notice that God made all the animals, including man, on the sixth day.
