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Originally Posted by masterlee
If any has any doubt, look at these fools first line of defense--they quote the Book of Revelations, as written by John on the Isle of Patmos: "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophesy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book." {Revelation 22:18-19.} Now, I ask, which book is John referring to? It couldn't mean the Bible, since the book we all now acknowledge as the Bible did not then exist at the time of it was written.
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Deut 4:2 and 12:32 say the same thing about Torah and Prov 30:5-6 reflects the same (among other places).
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What about the several books mentioned by name in the scriptures that were considered sacred by the apostles but are lost to us.
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What about them? How do you know they were considered sacred? Simply quoting another source doesn't mean you think it's sacred.
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What of the Books of Enoch,
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What about it? I have a copy.
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the Book of Iddo the Seer, the book of Nathan the prophet, Epistles written by the hand of Paul, and dozens of other books we do not have in our collection?
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What about them?
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Wouldn't these be just as sacred?
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Why? Just because they are mentioned?
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So what, I ask, is the book we should neither add nor diminish? It is "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto...his servant John." {Rev. 1:1.}
The fact that our decietful friends include such a flimsy argument as their sole reasoning, shows that they have no better argument to substantiate their claims.
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Oh, whew. I'm not a deceitful "friend". I never use that verse from Rev. as an argument outside of the Book of Revelation itself.
If you want to discuss specific passages that you think have problems, I'm up for it or if you have a good reason for me to good look for the book of Gad the Seer (1 Chr 29:29) I'll go start digging. Simply pointing out that Gad the Seer wrote a book and it was mentioned in 1 Chr 29 doesn't give me good reason to go look for it or worry about it.