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Why did the reformers include the book of Hebrews in the canon?
As far as Calvin was concerned, his views on the canonicity of Hebrews can be found in his introductory comments to his commentary on Hebrews (here at pp. 16–17). He includes it "without hesitation" ...
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What arguments do KJV-only proponents give to support that the 1611 translation is better than say, Greek language Bibles?
You will find the among some KJV-Onlyists the assertion that the 1611 KJV Bible was directly inspired by God. That cuts away any need for them to explain why the KJV can be considered the infallible ...
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What Bible "type" disambiguation?
Daily Bible: A regular bible printed on normal pages and regular footnotes etc.
Devotional Bible: The bible text, packaged with chunks of text by one or more authors, designed to help explain the ...
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According to non-inerrantist Christians, what are the strongest arguments against the inerrancy of the Protestant Bible?
The strongest argument for there being at least one error in the 66 books of the bible is that there are so many plausible candidates for such an error. Defenders of inerrancy are left having swat ...
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Is there something in Sirach that caused it to be considered Apocrypha?
William Whitaker's Disputations on Holy Scripture is a classic Reformation-era work that goes into great depth regarding the reasons that the apocrypha were rejected. He deals with Sirach (...
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Why do 21st century Protestants still not include the deuterocanonical books in the canon?
Because Protestants do not believe that the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ have borne witness to them that those texts are inspired scripture.
The Westminster Confession (1646) has a fascinating ...
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Do Bible translations matter?
As also born again Christian, I can offer you some insight, although I'm not sure this will be a suitable question for this website format overall.
Does Bible translation matter? Yes and no.
Bibles ...
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According to non-inerrantist Christians, what are the strongest arguments against the inerrancy of the Protestant Bible?
The strongest arguments are from those who come from traditional sectors of the Christian faith. For example, recently, John C. Poirier did an examination of one of the key texts in formulating the ...
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Do Protestant Trinitarians see a completeness of the canon of New Testament scripture in the number of books and authors?
It's almost impossible to say definitively that no Christians believe any given thing. However in general Christians do not believe in any significance to the number of books or to the number of ...
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According to Protestant New Testament Scholars, can one argue for the inspiration & unity of scripture without using a “theological” claim or method?
One way is to find out how an academic non-believer in the Bible came to conclude that it really was the inspired word of God. And if that academic became a Protestant who was not reduced to basing ...
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What are the most widely used simple-English bible translations in mainstream protestant churches?
Simple English translation options
Among the top 10 bestselling Bible translations in 2020:
NIV (1978, latest update 2011) ranks #1
KJV (1611, latest update 1900) ranks #2
NLT (latest update 2004) ...
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What are the most widely used simple-English bible translations in mainstream protestant churches?
It' is easy to determine the most popular Bible translations. Within that you would have to be more specific about what constituted "simple English".
Of the ten most popular translations ...
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What Bible "type" disambiguation?
The term “Reader's Bible” is correct for the way you want to use it. The reason popular sites for selling Bible's don't use it much is there aren't that many out there. That is slowly changing as ...
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According to non-inerrantist Christians, what are the strongest arguments against the inerrancy of the Protestant Bible?
Much depends on what is meant by "inerrant". Let us consider the following grid of potential meanings:
A. All Bibles
B. Some modern critical text
C. Autographical text
1. Grammatically ...
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How did attitues to the deutero-canonical books in the Western Churches change during the second millenium?
Current Position of the Roman Catholic Church
The current position of the Roman Catholic Church is given in Articles 135 and 138 of the Catechism.
The Sacred Scriptures contain the Word of God ...
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Which is the book in the Protestant Bible containing most quotes of verses from other Bible books?
The closest answer that I could find regarding quotes is from research using a compilation of Old Testament quotes in the New Testament (in English). This shows Romans (at 48), followed by Hebrews (at ...
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Question regarding different translations of the Bible into Japanese
The most recent and most used translation in Japan is the 新共同訳聖書 Shin Kyōdō Yaku Seisho, both in Catholic and Protestant denominations in Japan.
Both the most recent version from 1987 and the older ...
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Why do 21st century Protestants still not include the deuterocanonical books in the canon?
I am summarizing some of the stronger points from this article: https://carm.org/reasons-why-apocrypha-does-not-belong-bible
Jesus defined the Old Testament portion of the canon here:
“From the ...
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According to non-inerrantist Christians, what are the strongest arguments against the inerrancy of the Protestant Bible?
Okay I'll take the bait.
Depending on your point of view, the strong arguments would probably be categorised into two key areas, taking your evangelical notion of 'error' given in the question.
From ...
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Is the Orthodox canon right?
One doesn't consider becoming something. Rather, one realizes that one is something and considers formalizing the situation.
If you are Orthodox, you will already know that they have the right canon.
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According to non-inerrantist Christians, what are the strongest arguments against the inerrancy of the Protestant Bible?
The strongest argument are the actual problems within the text.
2 Samuel 24:1 states that God incited David to take a census of Isreal, but according to 1 Chronicles 21:1 Satan incited David. Both ...
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Do Protestant Trinitarians see a completeness of the canon of New Testament scripture in the number of books and authors?
As a Trinitarian Christian of the Protestant persuasion, I see great significance in the number three as it pertains to the Godhead. This represents divine fullness, totality, sufficiency and ...
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Do Protestant Trinitarians see a completeness of the canon of New Testament scripture in the number of books and authors?
I am about the worst person on Stack to comment on numerical matters, as I am an almost complete dunce when it comes to arithmetic. Yet even I can see that the key number here is '3'. The original ...
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Are there any Christians who reject the canonicity of the whole protestant Bible?
I have not found any Christian denominations that reject the 66 books of the Protestant Bible -- it would be particularly difficult to claim to be a Christian without some teachings of Christ to go ...
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Matthew 24:15-20, If we can't go back and get our clothes, where are we to go?
The Protestant view is that there was a literal application when the Romans laid siege to Jerusalem, then withdrew unexpectedly. That was the moment to escape and flee to the mountains because when ...
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Do Anglicans believe the decision on the 66 book canon was infallible?
Disclaimer: this answer is based on my speculation from rudimentary knowledge of Anglicanism, but hopefully backed by sources.
TL;DR
No, because the canon has never being infallibly defined by the ...
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Is there something in Sirach that caused it to be considered Apocrypha?
BACKGROUND
First, it is true that the Jewish canon at the time around Christ excluded the Book of Sirach. The reason for the exclusion was simple. It was written during the time when the prophetic ...
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Is there something in Sirach that caused it to be considered Apocrypha?
Sirach 2:1 (1611 KJV)
My sonne, if thou come to serue the Lorde, prepare thy soule for temptation.
Despite being tagged as "apocryphal", I don't think there was widespread condemnation by some ...
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How was Solomon considered one of the wisest?
I Kings seems to imply King Solomon was the wisest of all men in all nations at his time:
1 Kings 4:29-31 (DRB)
And God gave to Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart ...
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To the LCMS Lutherans, how is the Bible the word of God?
View A reflects the LCMS view.
We believe, teach and confess that all Scripture is given by the inspiration of God the Holy Spirit and that God is therefore the true Author of every word of ...
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