I am thinking about buying a NRSV with the Apocrypha for historical
study reasons. I understand that Josephias, Acts of Paul, Gospel of
Thomas, and such are included, is this correct?

I hear that the author of the Inferno (Dante) perhaps got some of his
ideas from the Apocrypha, is this correct?


Thank you,


John

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Hi guys. I first sent this before I had finished replying. I hit a
wrong keyboard combination. So am now resending in full.


On Mon, 30 May 2005 05:48:15 +0000 (UTC), wrf3@stablecross.com (Bob
Felts) wrote:

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>Matthew Johnson wrote:
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>> In article <144.04.20.05.537140000@srcbs.org>, Bob Felts says...
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>> >Matthew Johnson ; wrote:
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>> >> In article <143.48.18.05.144965000@srcbs.org>, Bob Felts says...
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>> >> >Gary McNees wrote:
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>> >> >> "Bob Felts" wrote in message
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>I'm not equivocating. Just as, in the natural world, the same phenomena
>looks different when viewed at at different levels, the same thing
>happens in the supernatural world. Or consider a play, movie, or book.
>Suppose an author creates a world where people are to do "X". But the
>author creates a character that refuses to do "X". Is this character
>obeying or resisting the author's will?
>


The book analogy is a poor one. The problem is that those characters
do not have the ability to make a choice. They can be portrayed by
the author as refusing to do "X" or agreeing to do "X". But that is
because the author wills it to be so. No matter what happens in the
plot, the character will always do as the author wills it to do.
There is no possiblity of them ever resisting the author's will.

In the spiritual domain, it is possible to resist God's will and it is
possible to submit to God's will. That power He has willed to every
human being--the ability to choose.

However, left to himself man will only choose evil. His nature is
incapable of choosing anything else. Good desires are not i