miken@mirror.tmc.com (Mike Nappo ) (06/05/90)
In article <May.24.00.58.52.1990.21298@athos.rutgers.edu> mmh@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Matthew Huntbach) writes: >If God had wanted His religion to be Bible-based, surely He >would have had the book written out and presented, rather in >the way Moslems got the Koran. > >The fact that Jesus did not write a book, but did found an >organisation tends to suggest His religion was intended to be >Church-based not Bible-based. > >Matthew Huntbach I find this thought to be most interesting particularly since I am a Catholic who is very much put off by the narrow "where is the Biblical basis" view. Therefore, I would like to carry this thread to a slight extreme: can someone tell me the Biblical basis for the Bible itself? I know that there is constant reference to holy scripture, but where is it clearly identified and codified as such? *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- - Mike Nappo miken@mirror.TMC.COM * * {mit-eddie, pyramid, harvard!wjh12, xait}!mirror!miken - - Mirror Systems, 2067 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140 * * (617)661 - 0777 - -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*