What's your favorite canon?

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by Timmy

What's your favorite canon, and why?

Thought about making a poll, but there are too many to choose from.

1. Protestant
2. Protestant, without the ones Martin Luther didn't like
3. Roman Catholic
4. Ethiopian Orthodox
5. Eastern Orthodox
6. Armenian Apostolic (has a catchy name, don't you think?)
7. Coptic Orthodox
8. Syriac Orthodox
9. Greek Orthodox
10. Slavonic Orthodox
11. Georgian Orthodox
12. Other (I know this list isn't complete. Find another one you like, or make you own!)

Good question.

Right now I use the KJV primarily, although I also use a Greek/English Septuagint and an interlinear New Testament.

I prefer the Greek version of Esther to the Masoretic, I believe if either of them are inspired the Greek version would be the more likely candidate.

I have my doubts about the Song of Solomon but I don't see anything in it that would cause me to deny it as inspired, I just have my doubts about it's place in the canon.

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Number, Deuteronomy definitely in the canon.

The Major and Minor Prophets, I accept as inspired.
Psalms (the numbering system is irrelevant, imo). Although I do believe the eastern Orthodox have an additional Psalm in there. Haven't looked too closely at that particular difference but I was under the impression that extra Psalm might actually be repeated somewhere else in scripture thus making that issue moot.

I do not accept the 'additions to Daniel' as inspired, nor do I accept the rest of the 'apocrypha' as inspired. I DO however use them for study, and my children are becoming more familiar with them as well.

Enoch, Jubilees, other Essene and Dead Sea scroll type writings I find interesting but not inspired.

In the NT, I have some questions about Philemon (like, what's the point of it being in the bible?) but on the whole I accept the Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox New Testament canon. (I prefer the Textus Receptus as being a superior text to the 'modern, critical' texts, though - which is one reason I use the KJV).

The book of Jasher I believe is a fake from the 19th century (I have a copy of it and have read it).

William Whiston, in an appendix to his edition of Josephus' writings, has a very interesting article on the subject of the OT canon, which I recommend (with a grain of salt) for anyone interested in the topic.

I have found that in the days of Jesus and the apostles, there WERE 'canon disputes' going on within Judaism. I find it interesting they never seemed to have addressed the subject.

Almost as if the subject of 'the canon, which translation, etc' were somehow foreign to them... almost as if they had a different paradigm, a way of looking at Scripture with a point of view and an understanding that we do not currently have.

I am CURRENTLY confident in saying if you have a King James Bible you have all the written word of God you NEED. I am also confident in saying I am still learning about this very topic.