Thread:Superdadsuper/@comment-33875200-20200323152739/@comment-1777104-20200326193601

Thank you for your thoughts. As my young colleague noted, the Bible is defined by the wiki as the 66 books of the original (early church) canon. The apocrypha is noted as having value, but not being up to the standards of canon. The Jews had finally confirmed the Old Testament as we know it (but not the modern order of the books) by the end of the first century (AD). The Church confirmed the New Testament by the end of the fourth century. The Apocrypha was added to the canon by decree in 1546 at the Council of Trent, to be called Deuterocanonical. This was part of the "Counter-reformation", a reaction to the Luther's Bible (supported by Hebrew Scriptures and Erasmus' Greek Testament).

Your suggestion concerning an addition to the article on Simon Peter is appreciated. However, the interpretation of the Rock is not that the apostle "was the Church", but rather the was to be the earthly leader of the Church. Since that article has not included this detail, a future edit will certainly cover that crucial point in Peter's life.

As a contributor and administrator of this wiki, I attempt to be fair to the text of the Bible. In doing this, I write articles with as little bias as I can. My point of view is that of a believer and not a skeptic. If my bias comes out, and I'm sure it does, it is coincidental. Our purpose here is to provide a place for students of the Bible to build an online encyclopedia based ONLY on the text before them. Often editors (who tend to be young adult males) will write "what they think" rather than studying the Bible to see what it says. Having been trained to be a minister, I am in the place to correct such presumption. When I do, I try to remove ambiguity.

It is our stated purpose to present a Biblical Point of View. That leaves no room for a perspective many centuries removed, be it Catholic or Protestant. Anyone can edit, but interpretation should be at a minimum. When interpretation is needed, qualifiers (may, might, possibly, etc.) should be used. Footnotes to Biblical passages should always be used to support statements in an article.

SouthWriter (talk) 19:36, March 26, 2020 (UTC)