Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: tblake@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Thomas Blake) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: The End of the World!! Message-ID: Date: 1 Mar 91 07:41:56 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: State University of New York at Binghamton Lines: 23 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article lrb@hpfcso.fc.hp.com (Larry Bruns) writes: >PS - I once heard that when the first Protestant Christians were deciding >which books to include in the new Protestant Bible (they threw out many of the >books - mostly now called the Apocrypha - which are still today included in >the Catholic Bible), Martin Luther was against including Revelations. But >he was outvoted by his peers (Protestants have always tended to be a rather >democratic lot!) Too bad. If his peers had listened to him, maybe today >fewer Protestants would be wasting their talents and their time on doing huge >amounts of research on end-times prophecies. It was my understanding that the only difference between the books of the Roman Catholic Bible and the "Protestant Bible" was the elimination of books from the "Old Testament" which brought the "Protestant Bible" into line with the Jewish Bible which had solidified *after* the Christian Bible. (While the Jews had many "books" only certain were placed in the large composite volume.) As reformers sought to bring the church back to its roots, the Old Testament was amended, 5 sacraments were elimimated, (since Jesus never participated in them). etc... Tom Blake SUNY-Binghamton