The Publication of a Book (New Testament)

It must be understood that the synoptic Gospels were published orally for many years before the written text came to market. With many of the writers of the Christian Greek Scriptures, you have the author himself penning the book (rough draft), making needed corrections, and then producing the 'authorized' text. From this authorized text, other copies were made. For those authors who dictated their writings, the scribe would take it down initially in shorthand and then create a rough draft to be corrected by the author and himself. From this, the scribe would produce the authorized text for the author to sign in his own hand. After the individual books had been in circulation for a few decades, the community of Christians throughout the Roman Empire started to form collections, such as combined books of the Gospels, and compilations of the apostle Paul's letters. These groupings were accomplished by 125 C.E., with the total collection of the 27 books of the Christian Greek Scriptures coming throughout this process of publishing, copying, collecting, and canonizing of the Christian Greek Scriptures, those involved recognized these writings as being authoritative, no less than the graphe Scriptures of the Hebrew Old Testament books.

Illinois anti-gun legislation

Governor Pat Quinn and anti-gun legislators across the state are garnering support for semi-automatic gun and magazine bans, registration schemes and shooting range restrictions they intend to pass on Tuesday, January 8.

Anti-gun politicians are trying to exploit recent tragedies involving the misuse of firearms by violent criminals as an excuse to restrict or even eliminate your gun rights. Do Not let them blame and penalize you by passing more gun control laws that will only be ignored by criminals.

We urge you to contact your state Senator Steven Landek now at (708) 430-2510 and (217) 782-0054 to respectfully demand he protect your rights and vote No on House Bills 815 and 1263!