did god write the bibble

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[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They didn't remove books from the canon. The canon wasn't discussed at the Council of Nicea. There were different sects with different canons. What became Orthodox Christianity settled on the canon we have in a completely natural way.

The protestant church did remove a couple of books from the Bible. These are books from the intertestamental period that the Jews didn't include in their canon to begin with. But that's another matter.

1 Enoch was only part of the Ethiopian canon. It wasn't excluded; it simply didn't become part of any other canons, and over time people started reading it less, and now there's a revived interest in it. Again: completely natural.

people wrote the bible

Nobody's contesting that. What Christians believe is that they were inspired by the Holy Spirit.

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I am sure they do not believe that it was inspired by god, they believe it is the literal word of god. This was never the original intention of the bibble and the ability to understand metaphor and pagan astronomical personification has been lost.