Hello, my name is Forrest Reineke and I’m an First Year Economics major here at Butler. I’m from St. Louis, Missouri. I love to watch professional: basketball, MMA, and soccer. I’m a United Methodist and I was very active in my churches Youth Group back in Missouri. I chose this course because it fills the TI requirement and I thought it’d be cool to look at the Bible from the perspective of academia.
The Bible is, to me, a collection of different chapters written by assorted followers of God. They’re talking about their interactions with the Holy Trinity and trying to help others grow in their faith as well by spreading the good work of God.
As I said above the Bible was written by a bunch of different people. They all have different life journeys, levels of importance, and times that they were alive. The area of this question that I know the most about is how they chose what was in the Bible. Early church leaders got together and formed many creeds, namely the apostles creed, the athanasian creed, and the nicene creed. These outlined what would be accepted into the Bible and what wouldn’t be by the people who assembled all these different books into the “Bible.”
Whenever I looked up “what’s in the Bible” a bunch of kids show things come up. If you look up “Bible” then a bunch of different online versions of the Bible show up. Finally if you look up “Canon” it’s nothing but cameras.
I suppose I really have no clue as to whether their information is credible. One of my go to’s when trying to figure out credibility is how official does the website look. Another one is when was the content published, but in regards to the Bible I’m not sure that matters.