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Three hundred years after Jesus lived Councils were formed to decide what your Bible should be. Is that how history should be recorded?

Say you were alive in 325 A.D. others like you got together and review everything you could get your hands on and then decided what to keep and what to destroy?  Then you distributed what you decided to keep and those who received your distributions would never know what you did not allow them to see because you didn't like it or disapproved. How is that a FAITHFUL and TRUTHFUL way to document what happened? Hundreds of years later? Make sense to you? Really? Why? Do you like others deciding for you what is true and preventing you from ever being exposed to other possible truths for their political reasons? Sounds vaguely familiar doesn't it?

Posted - September 2, 2019
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  • 16975
    There was quite a lot of apocryphal junk floating around in the early 4th century CE. Gospels attributed to Peter, Mary and Thomas (two of them) among others which clearly were NOT penned by the putative authors (Greek idiomatic usage at variance with that of the time and region), as well as letters attributed to Paul and Barnabas to churches which did not exist during their lifetimes ...
    Anything that was obviously untrue was cut. Then, during the Reformation, books and partial books that were in the Latin Vulgate but NOT in the Hebrew Scriptures were cut from Protestant Bibles but not from Catholic and Orthodox ones - Maccabees is certainly interesting historically but probably doesn't belong in the Bible.
      September 2, 2019 5:20 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    Thank you for your THOUGHTFUL KNOWLEDGEABLE and INFORMED/INFORMATIVE reply m'dear. I appreciate it bigly. So what's happened to Ashleigh Barty? Is there something going on in her life that's throwing her off her game? I was hoping Nick could stay in longer than he did. Ever think a 15-year-old would face the World Number One player at a Grand Slam? It keeps it interesting if exasperating! Happy American Labor Day Monday R!:)
      September 2, 2019 5:39 AM MDT
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  • 16975
    Exhausted from playing a long doubles rubber the day before :-(
      September 2, 2019 6:11 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    Double "rubber"? Another word for match? Who? Ash or Nick? Anyway next in line is the Australian Open and I know Ashleigh will shine. Hope Nick does too. Now here's a fantasy wish. WHAT IF Ash won the Women's and Nick won the Men's matches? Has that ever happened before? Same country two champions for the same event? Thank you for your reply R! :)
      September 2, 2019 6:14 AM MDT
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  • 16975
    Rod Laver and Margaret Smith-Court.
    John Newcombe and Evonne Goolagong-Cawley. Steffi Graf and Boris Becker. It's happened before.
    Ash had a lengthy three-set doubles match the day before (12-10 in a third set tiebreaker). It's hard to back up from that.
    I've given up on Nick. So much talent. So little effort. This post was edited by Slartibartfast at September 2, 2019 6:40 AM MDT
      September 2, 2019 6:24 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    Were those wins IN THE SAME YEAR R? Thank you for the fill-in on Ash. I wonder if it's wise to spread yourself so thin? Maybe she needs to rethink her priorities? Thank you for the info and explanation. I appreciate it. Nick is so intense and so casual. It's an odd combination. Can't think of a likewise player.
      September 2, 2019 6:42 AM MDT
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  • 16975
    The Rocket and the Arm failed by one tournament to complete simultaneous calendar year Grand Slams in 1969 (French, US, Australian. Megs was beaten in the semi at Wimbledon). Newc and Gong both won there in 1971, Steffi and Boris triumphed in the British and American opens in 1989.
    I'm sure there have been dozens of simultaneous American champions as well - Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King were contemporaries, as were Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors, Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe, Pete Sampras at the end of his career and Venus at the beginning of hers, etc.
      September 2, 2019 7:01 AM MDT
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