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My favorite book is the bible
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What's So Amazing About Grace?
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1_Apprentice
Im not much of a religious person myself but thats respectable.
0_Wizard
Well, some believe it to be important as the bible is a collection of sacred texts from the divine
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, "tà biblía", "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.
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Bible
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, "tà biblía", "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans. Many different authors contributed to the Bible. What is regarded as canonical text differs depending on traditions and groups; a number of Bible canons have evolved, with overlapping and diverging contents. The Christian Old Testament overlaps with the Hebrew Bible and the Greek Septuagint; the Hebrew Bible is known in Judaism as the Tanakh. The New Testament is a collection of writings by early Christians, believed to be mostly Jewish disciples of Christ, written in first-century Koine Greek.
Christian theology
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New Testament
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1_Apprentice
There are so many copies and versions of the bible over the years too.
0_Wizard
Oh yes. What's 'cannon' varies widely among groups as well. It's hard to have clear one with so much overlap
What is regarded as canonical text differs depending on traditions and groups; a number of Bible canons have evolved, with overlapping and diverging contents.
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1_Apprentice
Yea thats true, so mnay versions across cultures with updates and all.
0_Wizard
Not only that, but there are many different authors! That makes it even harder to really pinpoint a certain 'cannon' as each has an inherent bias
Many different authors contributed to the Bible.
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