Matthew And Mark Gundry's 'Let The Lion Roar'
Session 1 Reading Response Issue: “Canon”
This week I read all six chapters that were assigned in our text, the lecture notes, as well as Matthew and Mark.
Gundry (2012) writes, “The New Testament canon consists of books accepted by the early church as divinely inspired.” The idea of canon still confuses me a bit and especially because man decided what was divinely inspired and could be put into the Bible. I have a lot of questions running through my head. I believe the majority of them are because I don’t trust people in believing that they don’t have an ulterior motive for doing things that do not benefit themselves. I know that isn’t the best way to think though. I watched a docudrama called “Let the Lion Roar” which was about reformation and the Bible as well. It mentioned that there was a great deception starting with Martin Luther in 1513 and then on to John Calvin in 1536. Luther turned against the Jews when they wouldn’t convert to Christianity and became an anti-Semite. Calvin was an anti-Semite as well. Their message was that the church replaced Israel. So what concerned me, was back then, all the Jewish names for …show more content…
Because of these textual critics, we have a wide variety of different translations. I love my WordSearch program as it allows me to look at different translations when I am looking at Scripture. I did find another one that I would like to check out. It is the NET. WordSearch is nice, but I like to have the actual books. I am one of those people that like to write and highlight in their Bible because it aids me when looking back trying to find something, but also I retain
This week I read all six chapters that were assigned in our text, the lecture notes, as well as Matthew and Mark.
Gundry (2012) writes, “The New Testament canon consists of books accepted by the early church as divinely inspired.” The idea of canon still confuses me a bit and especially because man decided what was divinely inspired and could be put into the Bible. I have a lot of questions running through my head. I believe the majority of them are because I don’t trust people in believing that they don’t have an ulterior motive for doing things that do not benefit themselves. I know that isn’t the best way to think though. I watched a docudrama called “Let the Lion Roar” which was about reformation and the Bible as well. It mentioned that there was a great deception starting with Martin Luther in 1513 and then on to John Calvin in 1536. Luther turned against the Jews when they wouldn’t convert to Christianity and became an anti-Semite. Calvin was an anti-Semite as well. Their message was that the church replaced Israel. So what concerned me, was back then, all the Jewish names for …show more content…
Because of these textual critics, we have a wide variety of different translations. I love my WordSearch program as it allows me to look at different translations when I am looking at Scripture. I did find another one that I would like to check out. It is the NET. WordSearch is nice, but I like to have the actual books. I am one of those people that like to write and highlight in their Bible because it aids me when looking back trying to find something, but also I retain