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The development of the canon deals with how the Bible came to be. "God determined the canon of Scripture by co-authoring it. Man recognized what God had revealed and accepted the canon of Scripture for what it was, the very Word of God. A book is not the Word of God because it was accepted by the people, it was accepted by the people because it was the Word of God. This is an important distinction. The canon was not formed by a council of men. It did not evolve over the years.
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While considered a "universal" book that doesn't pertain to just The Bible per se, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson adds an interesting perspective on the books. It is largely considered a satirical work which parodies The Bible and attempts to "poke holes" in the storyline. Fans of this particular book refer to themselves as "Pastafarians".
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Recent programs such as the History Channel's "Warriors of the Bible" clearly shows the diversity of cultures as they existed in the geographical region where the Bible stories occurred. And like many of the recent programs flooding the media such as the Book of Judas, Ron Howard's "The Da Vinci Code," etc, "Color of the Cross" ... bases its story not just on scriptural interpretation but other historical data with many interpretations pointing to the fact that Christ very well may have been dark skinned.
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Many have taken the values and beliefs in The Bible to heart and expressed them to the point of becoming martyrs for them. The Crusades, terrorism, genocide, and Christian rock music have all been the terrible results of gullible readers of The Bible. Of course, the list is endless. Pope, which used to be the highest civil authority hundreds of years ago in predominantly Catholic nations in Europe, was formed out of a work of fiction. Billions of dollars have been spent throughout the centuries to build churches and synagogues in which people can get together and read and celebrate The Bible. People have come to worship the book as though it were some sort of religious doctrine.
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The facts showed that 4 temperaments were based on astrology, not the Bible or even science. The twelve signs of the zodiac are arranged according to the elements (fire, earth, air, and water), the humors (yellow bile, black bile, blood, and phlegm), and the temperaments (choleric, melancholy, sanguine, and phlegmatic), in a cycle repeated three times. This “Christianized” form of astrology had entered the church under personality test. This is one of several behavior-oriented theories that modem psychology has adopted from ancient schools of philosophy. Those who have researched this field have stated personality tests have been proven to have no adequate statistical validity. (For an analysis of the worthlessness of personality testing see the Bobgan's book Four Temperaments, Astrology & Personality Testing, pp.
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