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Yahweh_is_gracious

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You probably know this, but just in case, there are interlinear Bibles available -- basically, someone figured out the time lines for all four gospels and made it into one. (At least, that's how I imagined it. Never actually looked at one.)
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What I was getting into was asking myself "so just why were these apocryphal books excluded from canon?", and trying to answer the question in my mind of why certain groups include up to 73 books in their accepted cannon, or as far as 81 books. The accepted answer of "they weren't inspired by God" isn't a satisfactory answer to me. Just trying to satisfy my own curiosity. I still have a LOT of questions about some things and it's been glaringly apparent to me over the past couple of years that to find a satisfactory answer, I have to do it myself because at least I will know exactly what the motivation for the answer is and I know where the biases come from.
 
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Yahweh_is_gracious said:
What I was getting into was asking myself "so just why were these apocryphal books excluded from canon?", and trying to answer the question in my mind of why certain groups include up to 73 books in their accepted cannon, or as far as 81 books. The accepted answer of "they weren't inspired by God" isn't a satisfactory answer to me. Just trying to satisfy my own curiosity. I still have a LOT of questions about some things and it's been glaringly apparent to me over the past couple of years that to find a satisfactory answer, I have to do it myself because at least I will know exactly what the motivation for the answer is and I know where the biases come from.
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F.F. Bruce's The Books and the Parchments. (How we got our English Bible.) And, yeah, the whole "inspired by God" thingy didn't work for me, until I learned what that meant through that book.

Warning: it's dry as a bone in parts, unless you're a bit nutty like me and like linguistics. And, even then, still dry in parts of the book, but worth the read.
 
Muzungu256

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im currently studying baptism u see.......

its interesting because sometimes we are told to just believe in Jesus john 3:16 acts 16:31 john 20:31 and tings......
but sometimes we are told to be baptized in connection to salvation like in acts 2:38, mark 16:16, gal 3:27 and romans 6:3-5.
 
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