Piers Morgan: Bible 'Inherently Flawed,' Needs to Be 'Amended'. What do you say?
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+9Morgan wouldn't be the first individual to comment on that of which he knows nothing, and he won't be the last.
I cannot find any reference to Constantine inspecting or approving the canon at the first Council of Nicea. As with most of the first seven ecumenical councils, it was mostly taken up with deciding on what was and was not heresy, the divinity of Jesus and other areas of dogma.
Full dogmatic articulations of the canons were not made until the Council of Trent of 1546 for Roman Catholicism, the Thirty-Nine Articles of 1563 for the Church of England, the Westminster Confession of Faith of 1647 for Calvinism, and the Synod of Jerusalem of 1672 for the Greek Orthodox. Other traditions, while also having closed canons, may not be able to point to the exact years in which their respective canons were considered to be complete.
According to Eusebius: "Such were the emperor's commands, which were followed by the immediate execution of the work itself, which we sent him in magnificent and elaborately bound volumes of a threefold and fourfold form." (Vita Const. 4.36.37)
The exact meaning of the concluding words has been taken in a half dozen different senses. Two of the most popular are, that the pages had 'three or four columns of script', or that as the copies were completed, they were sent off for the emperor's inspection 'three or four at a time'. The astonishing thing is that Eusebius, who took care to tell us at some length about the fluctuations of opinion in regard to certain books, has not one word to say regarding the choice he made on this important ...
According to Eusebius: "Such were the emperor's commands, which were followed by the immediate execution of the work itself, which we sent him in magnificent and elaborately bound volumes of a threefold and fourfold form." (Vita Const. 4.36.37)
The exact meaning of the concluding words has been taken in a half dozen different senses. Two of the most popular are, that the pages had 'three or four columns of script', or that as the copies were completed, they were sent off for the emperor's inspection 'three or four at a time'. The astonishing thing is that Eusebius, who took care to tell us at some length about the fluctuations of opinion in regard to certain books, has not one word to say regarding the choice he made on this important occasion. Of course, 50 magnificent copies, all uniform, could not but exercise a great influence on great influence on future copies, at least within the bounds of the patriarchate of Constantinople, and would help forward the process of arriving at a commonly accepted New Testament in the East.
Hey, piers ..
you've gotten enough $$$$$
time to put it to good use
and purchase your one-way ticket off the continent ..
there's plenty of places where you'd feel more 'comfortable' ..
maybe with Hugo, NK, China, Iran?