| Where did the canon (the list of books in the Bible) come from? | ||
| Many christians believe and are told that the New Testament section of the Bible first appeared around 367 on account of a letter by a person called Athanasius in which he is supposed to have listed all the New Testament books. The official date the New Testament is supposed to have been canonized (made official) is at a council in 382, and reaffirmed by the Council of Trent. | ||
| Secondly, christians are told (similarly to Jews) that the Old Testament is a very ancient set of books, the original authors being the various prophets and scholars listed with Moses in particular being a founding author. | ||
| Thirdly, christians are told that the first gospels were almost certainly written in Aramaic and then "translated" into Greek at least a hundred years later on account of the fact that during that period of Judea, the prevailing language of educated Jews was Aramaic with very few people in the ancient world having a mastery of one language, let along two. | ||
| While this is the official and prevailing view of christian officials, especially the Vatican, there is amble evidence to suggest all three points are deliberately inaccurate. | ||
| There is certainly overwhelming evidence to support that a parallel and completely contradictory set of scriptures to the official christian New Testament existed prior to the christian scriptures and is variously known by terms such as Gnostic, Ebionite, Nazarene and Essene. | ||
| Yet there is not one single shred of evidence that the New Testament scriptures which are dominated by the philosophies, writings and positioning of Paul were ever written in Aramaic first. Instead, there are several historic finds indicating that the New Testament writings appeared virtually "fully formed" in Greek much earlier than the 367 date claimed by christian church officials. | ||
| Even more controversially, these fully Greek and integrated sets of scriptures appeared to be mass produced, implying substantial resources and access to extremely sophisticated groups of scribes at a time in the ancient world when such resources were very scarce. In the case of Asia Minor, the largest scriptoriums prior to 100 CE and even prior to 70 CE and the destruction of the Jewish Temple were associated with the Great Library of Antioch, the Great Library of Alexandria and the Sadducee controlled Jewish Temple complex. | ||
| In terms of the Old Testament, the growing list of historic artefacts and writings point to astounding similarities between the ancient Persian scriptures of Zoroastrianism and ancient Judaism of the Bible, so much so that Christians have been obsessed in claiming Zoroastrianism is much "younger" than Judaism, when all historic timelines of the Persians conquering and controlling the Middle East prove such claims as deliberately misleading. | ||
| Instead, there is strong evidence to suggest that the Old Testament books were written in two great stages and "waves". The first associated with Jeremiah and Baruch around 600 BCE. | ||
The second wave of books is associated with Nehemiah and Ezra from around 455 to 420 BCE with the official list of Old Testament scriptures becoming "official" as early as 400 BCE. |
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When all these anomolies are considered together, there is strong evidence to suggest that the christian bible as directed and coordinated by Paul was created with substantial financial and academic resources "fully formed" including both the Old Testament and New Testament at least in mostly complete form from at least 55 CE onwards and that great emphasis was place on the positioning and "completeness" of the source texts, especially the binding of the Old Testament to the new scriptures. |
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