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  • Irockasingranite [she/her]
    3·
    4 years ago

    Yeah, there isn't really a single shared canonical bible between denominations. I've never bothered to look that closely, but you could probably learn a lot about the different christian offshoots just by looking carefully at what they value when constructing their foundational text, and specifically looking at what they discard.

      • Irockasingranite [she/her]
        6·
        4 years ago

        all the protestants did is shave a few books they disagreed with off

        That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about, discarding things they disagreed with.

        some denominations are just going to add a little extra stuff.

        Again, exactly what I mean.

        there is not any major branch of Christianity that doesn’t take what we know of as the Protestant Bible as scripture.

        Except, I would assume, catholics, who are themselves the largest group? Unless you mean they take it as scripture, and then some other stuff, too.

        I'm not saying they don't share most of the text, all I'm saying is that the texts don't match exactly, and there isn't one single canon.

        All of this isn't even getting into the issue of translations.

          • MiraculousMM [he/him, any]M
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            4 years ago

            Exactly this. The vast majority of debate over which books belonged to the canon took place in the first 300-400 years of Christianity. The foundational text for 99.5% of all denominations today is the 66-book collection known to everyone on earth as The Bible(TM). Yeah, the catholics readded some books in between due to their specific theology, but the idea that sects just shave off entire books they don't like on the reg is ridiculous.