[Default] I missed the Staff meeting, but the Memos showed that Rich
Rostrom wrote on Wed, 27 Jan 2010
03:12:39 -0800 (PST) in soc.history.what-if :
>On Jan 25, 6:40 pm, Invid Fan wrote:
>> In article
>> ,
>>
>> Rich Rostrom wrote:
>> > On Jan 24, 3:07 pm, Invid Fan wrote:
>>
>> > > A religion that did keep adding to the holy book
>> > > would be interesting, though.
>>
>> > Then one would get "forks". One group adds a text,
>> > another group adds a different text. Unlikely they
>> > would both add a same text later on.
>>
>> And this would change Christianity how? :) I think it's more then
>> possible in the days before Martin Luther, with the Bible controlled by
>> one central religious authority (or really two, come to think of it).
>
>No branch of Christianity adds texts to the
>Bible, except the LDS. They pick and choose
>among Apocrypha differently, but all of the
>Apocrypha were composed by 300 or so.
>
>In the scenario I imagine, sect A adds new text J,
>sect B adds new text X, and later, A adds K,
>which is based on J, and L based on J and K,
>while B adds Y based on X, and Z based on X and Y.
>
>L and Z will almost certainly be incompatible.
And then comes the Reformed B, which rejects X, J and Z, because
"only a heretic would read them!"
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