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Old 2008-08-02, 19:20   Link #1222
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Originally Posted by Vexx View Post
I'll have to give the NAS Bible a look-see. Much of the Dead Sea Scroll (and other data) is more interesting because of the Gnostic data (those books that the Council of Nicea decided weren't part of "the Bible" in 325 AD -- and yes, some of them are pretty loopy and *I'd* have left them on the cutting room floor ).
Very, very true. Talk of "church fathers" often bothers me severely, because although church leadership was mostly in agreement on a lot, it's clear that it was not totally united. It's clear proof that "early" doesn't mean "right".

Of course, the real litmus test for Gnosticism was its agreement with the Judaism it sprung from, so I still doubt any of it would have made it in. But the "scrubbing" of church history is a constant aggravation.
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