From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 11 18:17:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98EEB37B400 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:17:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04E1A43E6E for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:17:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yid@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 3885 invoked by uid 417); 12 Sep 2002 01:17:30 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 12 Sep 2002 01:17:30 -0000 Received: from planb ([216.194.2.204]) (AUTH: LOGIN yid@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:17:28 -0600 Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 21:17:26 -0400 From: Joshua Lee To: Lawrence Sica Cc: tlambert2@mindspring.com, nwestfal@directvinternet.com, keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, dave@jetcafe.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Message-Id: <20020911211726.3958b7d8.yid@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: <4E5806F4-C5E5-11D6-9A0C-000393A335A2@earthlink.net> References: <3D7FC334.396A9F12@mindspring.com> <4E5806F4-C5E5-11D6-9A0C-000393A335A2@earthlink.net> Organization: Plan B Software Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 20:19:30 -0400 Lawrence Sica wrote: > The Roman Catholic church at one point decided to put together an > "official" bible, this was begun during the First Nicene Council, the > process was called the canonization of the bible. At the time there > were hundreds of gospels and assorted "books of the bible". The most > common form of the New Testament was put together in like 367 AD, by I The Kesubim in the Tanakh ("Old Testement"), however, was completely sealed (The Torah and the Prophets (Nevi'im) were sealed much earlier) by the Sanhedrin in 90 CE in Yavneh. (If xtians think the Sanhedrin, rather than wise sages, were a den of deicidal vipers then why do Protestants accept *their* canonization? :-) ) The major criterias were consistency of the book with the rest of the canon and availability of a Hebrew text. (The latter consideration eliminated the Apocrypha because those texts were only in Greek. This consideration distinguished on age; sealing the canon to a time shortly after the return from Babelonian exile, a reasonable criteria assuming that prophecy ended with the destruction of the first Beis Hamikdash.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message